Splitting table files by indexed value may not help if the operating system
doesn't manage to keep the tables unfragmented on disk. I suppose the O/S
should know how to do it though.
Cheerio,
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At 04:31 PM 12/12/02 -0500, Jean-Luc Lachance wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I just read about the cluster command and was a little (very)
>disapointed.
>Clustered tables do not remain clustered after inserts.
>Clustered tables are usefull when the table is very large and there are
>few different keys.
>
>
>Because the table file is already extended (2G limit) using different
>files extension (.N)
>how complicated (modifying the code) would it be to have the table files
>split according to the cluster key?
