Method and system for time-based reclamation of objects from a recycle bin in a database

摘要

A system for managing dropped objects of a database. The system comprises a finite amount of disk space for temporarily storing the dropped objects. The system further includes an indexer for assigning time stamps to each of the dropped objects and a reclaimer for reclaiming the dropped objects based on their time stamps. These time stamps can also be used to guarantee the amount of time the object remains in the recycle bin.