> Hmm,we have discussed about LONG.
> Change by LONG is transparent to users and would resolve
> the big tuple problem mostly.
> I'm suspicious that tuple chaining is worth the work now.
All commercial db's I know allow at least 32kb tuples,
they all do it with chaining, because they usually have a
smaller (often configurable) pagesize.
Imho it is definitely worth it.
Andreas