It is a returning question. It appears approx. once in a week.
Database not deletes physically records, but marks the occupied space as
reusable. And FB hasn't much to do with the OS, so it leaves the file size
as it was.
If you want to decrease the size, you should do a backup-restore.

ST

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Gonzáles S." <wgonzaless@...>
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 3:26 PM
Subject: [firebird-support] Database Size.


> Hello, when my database was created, it occupied 5 MB
> (empty database), I am putting and removing many
> records (in order to test my app), also my application
> creates 6 tables and saves many records in them, the
> database has now 7 MB; but, if I delete all records
> and the 6 tables created by my app, the database size
> continue being 7 MB, should not it diminish the size?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> William GS
>
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