Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Question about limits in fb 2.5 or 3.0
Author Dmitry Yemanov
Leyne, Sean wrote:
>
> The 32K page size is not an easy fix; it requires the same clean-up as a
> 64K page size.

It depends on what changes you make ;-) The 32K page size requires a
bunch of SSHORT->USHORT replacements, while the 64k page size requires
to change everything into ULONG. The latter implies an ODS change as well.

> In fact, about a year ago, I checked-out the code and did a search for
> "page_size/pagesize" and found that there were less then two dozen
> references.

Actually, there are more than a hundred code lines to change. And this
is an optimistic estimate.

> The change to a 64K page size can easily be reached (~1 man day of work)

I'm afraid it's somewhat harder to reach.


Dmitry