set global innodb_defragment=1; Warnings: Warning 1287 '@@innodb_defragment' is deprecated and will be removed in a future release create table t1 (a int not null primary key auto_increment, b varchar(256), key second(a, b)) engine=innodb; insert t1 select null, repeat('a', 256) from seq_1_to_100; select count(*) from t1; count(*) 100 connect con1,localhost,root; start transaction; select count(*) from t1; count(*) 100 connection default; optimize table t1; Table Op Msg_type Msg_text test.t1 optimize status OK connection con1; drop table t1; set global innodb_defragment=default; Warnings: Warning 1287 '@@innodb_defragment' is deprecated and will be removed in a future release