> great thanks
>
> to make sure I've got this right
>
> starting with the same database I can do either
>
> a) gbak with gc
>
> b) gbak without gc and gfix -sweep
>
> and I will have the same final result
>
>
> Extending this further, how can identify which tables contain (or did
> contain) the garbage.

Number of record versions per table in the gstat output.



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