At 09:18 PM 12/5/2004, Fabricio Araujo wrote:

>It has been discussed before, but I don't remember
>what was decided. The counter will be promoted to
>a 32-bit integer or eliminated?

Neither. The first change was to avoid incrementing
the table format number unless the format of the table -
its physical representation - actually changes. That
eliminated a lot of wasted format numbers associated
with trigger changes, etc.

However, increasing the format version number from one
byte to two - or four - is a major ODS change that affects
the size of every stored record and back version. It
could (perhaps) have been done in Version 2 along with
changes to the record number and index representation,
but more likely it will be a V3 feature along with
better record compression (variable length compression
counter).

Regards,


ann