Re: Maximum height of an Oracle B-tree index
- From: "Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 13:18:09 -0000
The blevel has to be recorded in the block,
and there is only one byte reserved for it,
so there is a limit of 255 built in. However,
Steve Adams suggested that the byte also
can hold some unspecified flag information,
so that reduces the maximum.
However, if only the low 5 bits were available
for the blevel, I would have expected a maximum
blevel of 31, height of 32, rather than Tanel's
indication that the maximum height was 24.
Regards
Jonathan Lewis
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lex de Haan" <lex.de.haan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 12:05 PM
Subject: RE: Maximum height of an Oracle B-tree index
: Jonathan,
:
: just thinking here -- I don't know of any internal reasons for a maximum
: B*-tree height in Oracle, right?
: any branch block only knows about its children, so we can go on splitting
as
: long as we like ...
:
: cheers,
: Lex.
:
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