Re: Dept of ugly hacks: eliminating padding space in system indexes

Mark Mielke wrote:
>saved - we're talking about 154 Kbytes saved on both those indices 
>combined. Minor? Major? I bet I wouldn't notice unless my database 
>requirements used up all RAM, and even then I'm suspecting it wouldn't 
>matter except for border line cases (like all pages required for 
>everything else happened to equal 4 Gbytes near exactly).

There is always only so much of 1st level and 2nd level cache; for those
the savings might well make a difference, even on multigigabyte
databases.
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Sincerely,          Stephen R. van den Berg.

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