Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Bi-directional indexes
Author Dmitry Yemanov
"Simon Carter" <simon.carter@...> wrote:
>
> If it doesn't take the conversation too off topic, what about support for
> clustered index's?

Why do you think we need them? Unlike other databases, our index scan
produces an optimized bitmap, so data pages are always read in their storage
order. And we cannot avoid looking at data pages anyway, as we're required
to chase the record versions chain.


Dmitry