Jim,
On 6/26/06 8:15 PM, "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On a somewhat related note, I think that it would be advantageous if the
> FSM had a means to prefer certain pages for a given tuple over other
> pages. This would allow for a better way to keep heap and possibly index
> data more compacted, and it would also be a means of keeping tables
> loosely clustered. It would also make it far easier to shrink heaps that
> have become bloated, because the FSM could be told to favor pages at the
> beginning of the relation.
Interesting idea - page affinity implemented using the FSM.
WRT feasibility of BTREE organized tables, I'm not sure I see the problem.
Teradata implemented a hashing filesystem for their heap storage and I've
always wondered about how they handle collision and chaining efficiently,
but it's a solved problem for sure - knowing that makes the challenge that
much easier :-)
- Luke
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