El Mié 13 Dic 2000 22:24, xuyifeng escribió:
> I have this nasty problem too,  in early time, I don't know the problem,
> but we used it for a while, than we found our table growing too fast
> without insert any record( we use update), this behaviour most like M$
> MSACCESS database I had used a long time ago which don't reuse deleted
> record space and full fill your hard disk after several hours,  the nasty
> vaccum block any other users to operate on table,  this is a big problem
> for a large table, because it will block tooo long to let other user to run
> query. we have a project affected by this problem, and sadly we decide to
> use closure source database - SYBASE on linux, we havn't any other
> selections. :(
>
> note that SYBASE and Informix both have 'update statistics' command, but
> they run it fast in seconds, not block any other user, this is pretty. ya,
> what's good technology!

I have to say that 'update statistics' does not take a few seconds if the 
databases have grownto be a bit large. At least thats what I have seen.

Saludos... :-)

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