Re: C-ISAM: COMPRESS with two-parts index

} } Chris Drauch wrote: } > } > } > Maybe, have a attentive look at C-ISAM Manual 2-24 (Indexing). TCOMPRESS } > would } > remove trailing spaces, but LCOMPRESS would remove leading duplicate char. } > from the keys. You have to check out if space saving is really of any use } > in fact of (C-ISAM) costs for maintaining the compression. } > } You're right, and I also use LCOMPRESS, as shown in the example I gave. } If I didn't, } an obvious solution would be to have the id first, in key. Too bad } that doesn't } answer may question, that is: does the compressing technique apply to } each part } of the key individually, or to the whole key at once ? } NO, just the whole key. -- Chris Drauch ...................................................................... . c/o DRAUCH Ges.m.b.H. Tel. 43/ 3135/46387-0 . . Gewerbestrasse 5 Fax 43/ 3135/4638728 . . A-8071 Hausmannstaetten EMail cdr@xteam.co.at . ......................................................................