A recurring and very common customer issue seen here at the Percona Support team involves how to make the ibdata1 file shrink within MySQL. I can only imagine theres a degree of regret by some of the InnoDB architects on their design decisions regarding disk-space management by the shared tablespace* because this has been a big [&]

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