<div dir="ltr">Hi Tobias,<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">VACUUM doesn't help here and isn't reachable easily using a button in<br>QGIS. Seems like there's much empty space in the db scheme. Perhaps<br>anyone can explain this?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>You can right-click on the gpkg file in the file browser panel and you can see the `Compact Database (VACUUM)`.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 1:52 PM Tobias Wendorff <<a href="mailto:tobias.wendorff@tu-dortmund.de">tobias.wendorff@tu-dortmund.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Am 08.05.2020 um 11:30 schrieb Matthias Kuhn:<br>
><br>
> I do not want to trigger a evangelical discussion here. I'd like to see<br>
> where we are and what we can reasonably do to have a default file format<br>
> which can be recommended with no bad feelings.<br>
<br>
Two downsides of GPKG, which I've experienced with many users, who<br>
worked with Shapefiles in the past:<br>
<br>
1. A GPKG can contain multiple layers, but has one filename only. This<br>
confuses many users. They're expecting single files, like<br>
"houses_poly.gpkg" and "houses_point.gpkg". When they only see<br>
"houses.gpkg", they think they're missing anything. From the normal<br>
Windows Explorer (don't know about Nautilus etc.), you also cannot watch<br>
inside the GPKG file to check its content. It would be nice to make<br>
Windows parse GPKG's/sqlite3's metadata.<br>
<br>
2. As pointed out in the past, a big downside of GPKG or sqlite3 is the<br>
huge bloat. I often have single table GPKGs, which are 12 GiB. When<br>
compressing them with zstd, I can get it down to 3 GiB or even less in<br>
about no time.<br>
<br>
VACUUM doesn't help here and isn't reachable easily using a button in<br>
QGIS. Seems like there's much empty space in the db scheme. Perhaps<br>
anyone can explain this?<br>
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