a x e wrote:
..., but the "client" program is a Perl-script using
DBI. But I correctly establisch a connection, start a new transaction,
commit the transaction and close the db-connection.
sweeping does not help, file size growth in the same speed.
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I haven't been following all of this so this may have been covered (or be
off track):
What does the statistics (of the header page) say? Maybe you have a
'stuck transaction' and need to shutdown the database and do a sweep before
restarting.

Regards,
Aage J.