Re: index width

Posted in 2006

Art S. Kagel — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:38:29 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Floyd Wellershaus wrote: > Do you know where I can read about decoding the collength's based on > certain coltypes ? That could explain some things I've seen that I > don't understand. Things like a real high collength number for decimal > and date types. Check out the index size calculation in myschema. It's all there. > I read about B-tree's handling of wide index keys in a white paper by > Coppereye. <SNIP> Art S. Kagel