On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 05:58:51PM +0200, cluster wrote: > >In any case, I think the answer to your original question is that the > >fan-out can be up to several hundred per level, but it's not fixed. > > OK, its beginning to make sense. So the fan-out is given by the key size > and each child node is stored in its own page. Is that correct? I beleive so, yes. Each branch is a page that points to many either branches or leaves. A leaf is also a page which can contain many keys, which reference tuples in the actual table. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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