On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Tupy... nambá <anhanguera@...>wrote:

>
> But, having many NFE (as many as the transactions), don´t you agree that
> these BLOB´s will be a great source of fragmentation inside the DB ?
>

Err, no. It's not. I'm not 100% sure what you mean by fragmentation, but
all data, metadata, blobs, internal structure and state are kept on fixed
sized pages in a single file. Yes, if you're running on a disk that's full
and fragmented, that file will be scattered around the disk, but inside,
it's quite tidy.

> And, if I´m sure about my thinkings, as Firebird doesn´t have a way to
> defragment inside the DB, you don´t have a way to resolve this.
>

When pages are released, they're reused.

> May be, for having a good solution for such kind of business, one had to
> use a MS SQL Server to periodically defragment the DB. Or another DB name
> that has this funcionality. I searched something like this at Postgres and
> I found a command named VACUUM that does something like this. Think about
> all of this, if you want. If have to have BLOB´s, I think Firebird is not a
> good solution for a great number of them. My thought, you don´t need to
> agree.

The PostgreSQL vacuum is similar to Firebird's continuous, on-line garbage
collection, except that it's a separate, off-line command.

Good luck,

Ann


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