.blb file not shrinking after deleting ALL entries

[Robert Brenstein]

>on 2/15/04 9:59 PM, Andrew Sinning at andrew at learningware.com wrote:
>
>>  I asked about this last week, but didn't have time to follow up.
>>
>>  I add 100 entries to a table.  The table has a single BLOB field.  My
>>  .blb file grows to 3.5Mb.
>>
>>  Now, I execute 2 queries:
>>
>>  DELETE FROM testTable
>>  COMPACT  (I also tried "COMPACT DATABASE" at Ruslan's suggestion)
>>
>>
>>  The size of the .blb file is STILL 3.5Mb.
>>
>>  If I test the number of records in testTable, I get 0.
>
>Strange.
>
>COMPACT should move it down.
>
>You can use XML dump then to get smaller db.
>
>--
>Best regards,
>Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]

Does COMPACT actually rewrite the physical file or compacts only 
internal files? If the latter, then disk space allocation might not 
change even if the file is empty.

Robert