以下论述均假定innodb_file_per_table开启

先用常规optimize回收：

mysql> select count(*) from t;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|  1200096 |
+----------+

[mysql@even employees]$ ls -alh t.ibd
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql dba 72M 10-08 17:39 t.ibd

mysql> delete from t limit 800000;

mysql> select count(*) from t;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|   400096 |
+----------+

[mysql@even employees]$ ls -alh t.ibd
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql dba 72M 10-08 17:41 t.ibd


mysql> optimize table t;
+-------------+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Table       | Op       | Msg_type | Msg_text                                                          |
+-------------+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| employees.t | optimize | note     | Table does not support optimize, doing recreate + analyze instead |
| employees.t | optimize | status   | OK                                                                |
+-------------+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+

[mysql@even employees]$ ls -alh t.ibd
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql dba 29M 10-08 17:43 t.ibd

mysql> show processlist;
+----+------+-----------+-----------+---------+------+-------------------+------------------+
| Id | User | Host      | db        | Command | Time | State             | Info             |
+----+------+-----------+-----------+---------+------+-------------------+------------------+
|  5 | root | localhost | NULL      | Query   |    0 | NULL              | show processlist |
|  6 | root | localhost | employees | Query   |   64 | copy to tmp table | optimize table t |
+----+------+-----------+-----------+---------+------+-------------------+------------------+

Thread database.table_name          Locked/Waiting        Lock_type

6       employees.t                 Locked - read         Read lock without concurrent inserts

$ pt-online-schema-change -uroot -poracle --alter "ENGINE=InnoDB" D=employees,t=t --execute

执行pt工具时有可能发生的类似错误：

Cannot chunk the original table  There is no good index and the table is oversized

参考文章：
http://hidba.org/?p=795
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2013/09/25/how-to-reclaim-space-in-innodb-when-innodb_file_per_table-is-on/

By 迦夜

2013-10-8

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