Subject Re: [Firebird-general] Max database size
Author Ann W. Harrison
Leyne, Sean wrote:

> Probably from the same person who defined page sizes as a signed
> smallint -- which is why the max. page size is 16KB and not 32KB.
>

That problem is slightly different. From time to time, whole pages need
to be stuffed into structures and those structures have additional
header bytes, but the length of the structure is a short. As I recall,
Mike Nordell found about a dozen of those before we gave up and limited
pages to 16Kb.

Regards,


Ann