Re: [Firebird-devel] RFC: Major changes in ODS 12

[Leyne, S. <Se...@br...>]

> > Change offset fields from USHORT to ULONG to allow page sizes >64k.
> > Change meaning of hdr_page_size from number of bytes to number of
> > kilobytes for the same purpose.
> 
> Do you believe in faster performance using bigger pages?

Yes!

Disk sub-systems are supporting larger and larger block sizes.

It would seem logical for the database to support larger page sizes, to take advantage of the disk functionality.


Sean