Original User: vangelo
This is just on of those "That's the way the database works" issues. DBMSes which
use file-based data stores (Ora, MS, INF, DB2, but not PG) manage the blocks
themselves. The blocks must be preallocated so initial inserts to a new table
*won't* change the file size, unless there's so many inserts that auto-grow
allocates more storage.
- V