Ann W. Harrison wrote:

>
> The next most important is that the db_key is 32 bits and db_keys are
> not dense, so a table with somewhere between 40 and 70 Gb of data, runs
> out of db_keys.

I started that message using the term "record number" instead of db_key
and then went through and fixed it - without thinking. The db_key is
eight bytes (64 bits) but the previous definition used the top 32 bits
for the relation id and the lower 32 for the record number. In Firebird
2, the record number portion of the db_key is 40 bits. The db_key is
still 64 bits.

Think before typing, Ann!


Regards,


Ann