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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 23:08:14 -0600
From: Nick Bastin <nbastin@rbbsystems.com>
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To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Open 6.4 Items
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Ahh, well...bummer, then.. ;-)

Nick