Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 Items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 Items
Date
Msg-id 199809230232.WAA18868@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 Items  (Nick Bastin <nbastin@rbbsystems.com>)
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > allow chaining of pages to allow >8k tuples
>
> How transparent is this going to be?  Am I going to need to specify that a
> table needs to be 'chainable', or is it just going to do it when I create
> tables that can have records containing >8k of data?  I have several databases
> that I would like to move over to a postgres backend from 4th Dimension, but
> many tables have the potential of creating tuples greater than 8k.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>

Automatically.  We have had no one offer to do it, yet.

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