Re: db block size

Mladen Gogala apparently said,on my timestamp of 21/06/2004 3:50 PM:
> Well, that is not quite true. If there are big tables that need to be read by 
> using
> full table scan, than 16k buffer pool can act as recycle buffer pool and those
> big tables will be read faster then if the block size was 8k. You can still 

I'd qualify that by including:  "with raw data files".
With anything other than that, the I/O size is pretty much
fixed to what the f/s thinks is best and there is very little
one can do about it.  Except use direct I/O (if it works in
your platform) or raw.
So many variables, so little time to test them all...

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