From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199809230232.WAA18868@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 Items
In-Reply-To: <3608778C.DC6D2670@rbbsystems.com> from Nick Bastin at "Sep 22,
	1998 10:23: 4 pm"
To: nbastin@rbbsystems.com (Nick Bastin)
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 22:32:54 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: hackers@postgresql.org
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > allow chaining of pages to allow >8k tuples
> 
> How transparent is this going to be?  Am I going to need to specify that a
> table needs to be 'chainable', or is it just going to do it when I create
> tables that can have records containing >8k of data?  I have several databases
> that I would like to move over to a postgres backend from 4th Dimension, but
> many tables have the potential of creating tuples greater than 8k.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
> 

Automatically.  We have had no one offer to do it, yet.

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