Reclaim unused space in ibdata1

Registered by Aleksandr Kuzminsky

[FEATURE REQUEST]

Allow me to reclaim unused space in ibdata1 (and/or other global tablespaces). For example, if I convert most (or all) of my innodb tables to file_per_table, I will still have the original (potentially huge) ibdata1.

Yasufumi Kinoshita wrote on 2009-12-17: #1

Hmm.... XtraBackup depends on InnoDB entirely. So, if InnoDB doesn't allow to do so, also XtraBackup doesn't...
It may be feature request to InnoDB engine.

It may need to de-fragmentation of ibdata1 (it contains rollback segment etc...) before shrinking. It may not be so easy.

Yasufumi Kinoshita on 2009-12-17
Changed in percona-xtrabackup:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist

p.s.
Created from the bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/percona-xtrabackup/+bug/463749

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