ARIA_PACK(1)

💖 ARIA_PACK(1) — the user-commands girlies 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to aria_pack from the User Commands corner of the manual. it's giving "tiny tool, big compression energy" and i'm obsessed 💅

✨ NAME ✨

aria_pack — generate compressed, read-only Aria tables 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

aria_pack [OPTIONS] filename...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the whole vibe here is: you pack an Aria table so it takes up way less space. slay. but listen — keys are not updated. so after you're done, you must run aria_chk -rq on the index (.MAI) file to update the keys. no cap, don't skip that step or you'll be sad 😭

and the filename argument you hand over? that should be the .MAI file. that's the one. 🫶

and to unpack a packed table, you run aria_chk -u on the table. that's the un-pack. the reverse. the uno-reverse card, if you will 🃏

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀 (yes every single one, we don't gatekeep)

• -b, --backup — makes a backup of the table named table_name.OLD. safety first, bestie 🛟
• --character-sets-dir=name — the directory where the character sets live. that's their house 🏠
• -#, --debug[=name] — spits out a debug log. a lot of the time it looks like 'd:t:o,filename'. very "here's my diary, read it" 💀
• -f, --force — forces the packing even if the table ends up bigger 😭 or if the tempfile already exists. chaotic but valid.
• -j, --join=name — joins all the tables you gave it into 'new_table_name'. ⚠️ all tables MUST have identical layouts, no exceptions, they have to match fr fr.
• -?, --help — shows this help and dips out. classic 👋
• -s, --silent — be more silent. shhh 🤫
• -T, --tmpdir=name — use this temporary directory to store the temporary table. temp table's temp home ✨
• -t, --test — doesn't actually pack the table, just tests packing it. a dress rehearsal, iconic 🎭
• -v, --verbose — writes info about progress and the packing result. and bestie — use many -v for more verbosity! stack 'em, the more the louder 📢
• -V, --version — outputs version info and exits. the "who am i" moment 💁
• -w, --wait — waits and retries if the table is in use. patient queen energy 👑

🌈 DEFAULT OPTIONS, WHERE THEY COME FROM 🌈

default options get read from these files, in this exact order:

1. /etc/my.cnf
2. /etc/mysql/my.cnf
3. ~/.my.cnf

and the following groups get read: ariapack 📚

👑 the "give me these as the first argument" club 👑

the following options may be given as the first argument:

• --print-defaults — print the program argument list and exit. show us the receipts 🧾
• --no-defaults — don't read default options from any option file. none. zero. we're going rogue 🚫
• --defaults-file=# — only read default options from the given file #. one file, one love 💜
• --defaults-extra-file=# — read this file after the global files are read. late to the party but still invited 🎉

💫 SEE ALSO 💫

• myisampack(1) — the sibling, the cousin, the other one 🫶

for more info, please refer to the MariaDB Documentation, available online at https://mariadb.com/docs/ 📖✨

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was aria_pack Ver 1.0, dated May 2014 — yeah she's a 2014 girlie and she still eats 💅🧚💖