Jim Nasby wrote:
> Is there no way to change the index code to allow for moving index
> tuples from one page to another? If we could do that then presumably
> we could free up substantially more pages.
This paper
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigmod/ZouS96,
author = {C. Zou and B. Salzberg},
editor = {H. V. Jagadish and Inderpal Singh Mumick},
title = {On-line Reorganization of Sparsely-populated B+trees},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on
Management of Data, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 4-6, 1996},
publisher = {ACM Press},
year = {1996},
pages = {115-124},
bibsource = {DBLP, \url{http://dblp.uni-trier.de}}
}
may be of some use here.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/zou96line.html
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