Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Question about limits in fb 2.5 or 3.0
Author Ann W. Harrison
Dmitry,
>
> Look at dbb_page_size and its ODS counterpart hdr_page_size -- both are
> currently USHORTs and thus cannot hold a value of 65536. You may find
> many local variables that get assigned with dbb_page_size, compared with
> it, etc. And extending hdr_page_size means an ODS change, doesn't it (if
> we don't speak about encoding it some way, e.g. storing an appropriate
> power of two instead of the plain number)?
>

OK - that's the case I had forgotten. New page sizes are a new ODS
anyway - old engines can't handle them.


Best,

Ann