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Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive by peeters on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @03:52PM (#12914511)
I'm more familiar with Postgres, but it basically instructs the table storage provider to clean up unused disk.

Think of it roughly as defragmentation. You're trading work (in the form of writes and CPU) for reclaimed space.

Unless SQLite has some semantics around it, replacing it with "xxxxxx;" will likely just cause it to run a bad command...might be more correct to replace it with something like "------;" (comment characters).

Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive by boulos on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @11:10PM (#12917647)
I was going to say "SELECT 1;" but it's two characters too many. Will all comment characters evaluate to whatever VACUUM does?