On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 15:08:18 -0400, Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From time to time the idea of a logical vs physical mapping for columns > has been mentioned. Among other benefits, that might allow us to do some > rearrangement of physical ordering to reduce space wasted on alignment > in some cases. There might be a small addition on computation required, > but I suspect it would be lost in the noise, and swamped by any > increased efficiency we got from putting more tuples in a page.
I believe another counter argument raised, is that this would be a source of a lot of bugs. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
