Missing Something.....

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 12:08 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> All it does is get rid of cruft, temp files, and 
> such, including emptying caches and "vacuuming" databases.  (AFAIK,
> the standard term for that is "compressing," and I've no idea why they
> didn't use it.)

Because 1) "compressing" usually means something else (perhaps you meant
"compacting"), and 2) "vacuuming" appears to be a standard term in
database circles. It's even a built-in operation in sqlite and
presumably other db systems (I'm no expert).

poc