Hi, Paul,

The largest positive value is generally used as the null value in the 
column files.  However, the fact that a value is null is actually 
indicated by the mask file associated with the column.  If you want to 
see exactly the default values are, you can take a look at the 
function ibis::tafel::append in src/tafel.cpp.

Hope this helps.

John


On 2/2/2011 9:50 AM, Paul Komkoff wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:44 PM, K. John Wu<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Hi, Paul,
>
> Hi, John.
>
>> FastBit does not have a plug-in mechanism for implementing compressing for
>> column storage.  You might be able to do this by deriving a new class from
>> ibis::column.
>
> Thanks. I'm currently going through fileManager::getFile, and was
> wondering, how null values are distinguished from zeros, for example,
> for uint32 columns.
>
>
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