Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
> A customer of mine asked me to periodically delete old, unneeded records
> containing ByteA fields, because he think it will reduce the database
> size on disk. Is this true?. For example, in Firebird, the database size
> is not reduced until you do a Backup-Restore of the database.
>
the space occupied by deleted tuples will available for reuse after they
are vacuumed... so it might not shrink the database but it will help
keep the database from growing.