Re: Free Space Map thoughts

Simon Riggs wrote:

> Presumably we would not store an FSM for small tables? On the basis that
> the purpose of the FSM is to save on pointless I/O there must be a size
> of table below which an FSM is just overhead.

Hmm, do you mean that we would open and verify every page of a small
relation until we find one with free space?  That doesn't sound very
good.

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