Marc Batchelor wrote:

> They have many indexes and primary keys on columns that are 254 in
> length. Additionally, they create compound indexes on columns where
> the total length in bytes is much longer than 252 bytes.
> ...
> ...
> This is a case where Oracle, DB2, MSSQL, Postgres, MySQL, and many
> others are capable, but where Firebird seems to fall flat.

Would you care to try Fb2 or Vulcan - I think that limitation has been
removed. Or, changed to pagesize/4 (I believe).


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Aage J.