> Anyway, the good news is that Firebird 2 lets you store ridiculously wide
> indexes - up to the page size, minus 4, minus (I suppose) a few other

bytes

> that are earmarked for page pointers.

Well, not "ridiculously wide", considering 3-byte charactersets and all :-)

Then again, who needs wide indices if expression indices are supported. :-)

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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