PACK

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PACK ... commands

Purpose

Remove records from the active table that are marked for deletion

Syntax

PACK [ALL]

See Also

DELETE, DELETED(), RECALL, REINDEX, SET DELETED, SET EXCLUSIVE, SET SHARE, ZAP

Description

The PACK command removes all the records from the active table that are marked for deletion, and frees the disk space that they occupied. If the active table is indexed, the index is updated as the records are removed from the table. Exclusive use of the table is required for the PACK operation.

ALL

If the ALL option is specified, the PACK command will start at workarea 1 and PACK every open table in all workareas.

Example

use diary
? reccount()
       800
set talk on
delete all for date < date()
100 record(s) deleted.
pack
Pack complete, 700 records copied.
? reccount()
       700