RE: Do fast full index scans do physical disk reads?

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:13:00 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00388E56.20010910152226@fatcity.com>

Well, yes. I somtimes have this glimmer of hope that the uninitiated will RTFM
and get the details for themselves.

I'm obviously inconsistent in that philosophy. :)

Jared

                                                                                       
                             
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Yes it's fun getting Chris, our self-touting genuis. However, the point is not that unique indexes cannot be compressed, but that the prefix length canot be mre that one less than the numbewr of coluymns in the index.

Ian A MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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