Hi,
I was interested in this:
Firebird's indexes are very dense because they compress both the prefix and
the suffix of each key. Suffix compression is simply the elimination of
trailing blanks or zeros, depending on the data type. Suffix compression is
performed on each segment of a
Denis Perchine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was interested in this:
Firebird's indexes are very dense because they compress both the prefix and
the suffix of each key. Suffix compression is simply the elimination of
trailing blanks or zeros, depending on the data type. Suffix compression is
page splits.
-regards
richt
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Lane
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 9:48 AM
To: Denis Perchine
Cc: Hackers
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Firebird 1.0 released
Denis Perchine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I
The Firebird guys have gotten around to releasing 1.0. If you read this
front page spiel, you'll notice that they use MVCC, but with an overwriting
storage manager.
http://www.ibphoenix.com/ibp_act_db.html
The relevant extract:
Multi-version concurrency control uses back versions of modified
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Firebird guys have gotten around to releasing 1.0. If you read this
front page spiel, you'll notice that they use MVCC, but with an overwriting
storage manager.
Yup. I've had a couple of long chats with Ann Harrison at the recent
OSDB
