Re: [elephant-devel] garbage collection

2007-07-10 Thread Ian Eslick
Dmitri, The latest version in CVS does export a compact function that works on BDB stores, but it only truncates the end of the %ELEPHANT file and isn't very reliable because if you haven't dropped the last object added then it can't truncate at all. If you do drop objects, BDB should reu

[elephant-devel] garbage collection

2007-07-10 Thread Dmitri V. Gorbatovsky
Hello, from grateful user. I find that size of %ELEPHANT file (BDB) only grows with time and transactions. No matter how many objects I delete. Is there are any conventional way to shrink it? Sorry if the question is stupid, Iam not really advanced in Berkeley db usage. Thanks, DG ___

Re: [elephant-devel] db-postmodern update - Integrated!

2007-07-10 Thread Robert L. Read
Henrik and I have fixed some subtle bugs that occurred under certain data values (which happened to occur in my "live" database for "konsenti.com", my for- profit business. I have now integrated these fixes into the main darcs elephant repository. If anybody pulls and tests the :ele-postmodern b