Oh man I'd love to see #5 dealt with.

FWIW

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann Harrison" <harrison@...>
To: <IB-Architect@egroups.com>; <IB-Architect@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: [IB-Architect] Next ODS change (was: System table change)


> At 11:10 AM 11/7/2000 -0500, Leyne, Sean wrote:
>
>
> >On the subject of the next ODS change, what would it take to increase
> >the namespace size of the DB object from 31 to, say, 63 characters?
>
> Slightly messy, but probably a good chance for a general cleanup.
> Personally, I'd go for varchar[255].
>
> Other things to consider for the ODS change include:
>
> 1) Drop page checksum
> 2) Add page generation at bottom of page for a consistency check.
> 3) Increase max index key size from 255 to 64K.
> 4) Promote dbKey in non-unique indexes to eliminate duplicates.
> 5) Add FK root page (like IRT) so defining foreign keys doesn't
> require exclusive access.
> 6) Improve compression algorithm for large fields.
>
> I'm sure there are more.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ann
>
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