Subject Re: [firebird-support] Problem Firebird - database database exploded in size
Author Michael Ludwig
Svein Erling Tysvær schrieb am 08.09.2010 um 09:01 (+0200):
> I think you can get into this situation in older Firebird versions
> (probably in 1.5.3) by writing
>
> INSERT INTO TableA
> SELECT * FROM TableA
>
> without a proper WHERE clause (at least I think I did something like
> that once...).

Me too, I wanted to generate some data, and well, I did. On 2.1, I
think. Problem was I felt I had to forcibly stop this madness so I
produced a lot of work for garbage collection.

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Michael Ludwig