[elephant-devel] Secondary indices

[Ben]

it certainly appears that way.  in the back of my mind i think i had a
copying garbage collector in mind.....oh boy.

B

On 1/24/06, Ian Eslick <eslick at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> If I remove a secondary index from an indexed-btree, what happens to the
> underlying Berkeley DB storage?  It appears that any secondary values
> written just stick around rather than being removed via remove-kv or
> something like it.  Is that a correct assessment?  I'm just thinking
> about what happens if a user explicitely wants to drop a secondary
> database and reclaim any related storage.
>
> Thank you,
> Ian
>
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