some questions

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 7/18/06 3:25 PM, "Russ Tyndall" <fitzbew at nc.rr.com> wrote:

>> * may happens that I will be able in 2.4 RELEASE also improve OPEN for
>> VarChar...I have one old idea how to redo this. Idea is
>>       
>>   Keep ALL headers of all pagefiles (VarChar + Indexes)
>>   in the single special file. So it must work much faster.
>> 
> 
> Do you think (it may be too early to say) that we will keep compatibility
> with 2.3 created dbs?

Russ,

We already are NOT compatible with 2.3,
    because 2.4 improve Boolean fields.

This is why I think may be it is good idea try improve VarChar also in 2.4


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Ruslan Zasukhin
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Paradigma Software, Inc

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