Subject Re: [firebird-support] can you "compact" a database ?
Author Ivan Prenosil
> Does the space from the deleted records that is now "available" for future database transactions contain the data from the
> previous data set? Or is it cleared (filled with 0's). (eg. the ability to securely delete data records).

It is not cleared.
And even if it was cleared, it could not be done immediately after DELETE or COMMIT,
but only in some unpredictable future during garbage collection.

Ivan