From: Dan Nelson Date: March 22 2004 8:28pm Subject: Re: MERGE table with some packed tables? List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/162281 Message-Id: <20040322202817.GH26638@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In the last episode (Mar 22), Chris Elsworth said: > Ah, well these tables do need to be queryable and thus live; I only > ask about packing because it'll save space and (apparently) make them > faster; I've never actually played with packing MyISAM tables before. > > Happen to know if MySQL will need a kick after the packing is done? > Would a flush-tables do, assuming I can guarantee there was nothing > outstanding to be written to the table before I started packing it? Flushing the tables should be all you need. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@stripped