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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