Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Question about limits in fb 2.5 or 3.0
Author Alex Peshkov
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 17:32, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:
> Obviously, you cannot truncate the every segment of the compound index
> before constructing the key, it can be truncated as a whole only.

Why? When values in segment N match, you continue with segment N+1. When they
do not match, result of comparison does not depend from segment N+1 - exactly
what we need for compound index. May be I've missed something?