Re: PostgreSQL

Curt Sampson <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Feb 2006 12:28:57 +0900 (JST)

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On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> What if it's doing a write across a page boundary, and the second page
> isn't there?

That's been solved for a long time, since the 6502. The you just wrap;
write the bytes for the second page to the beginning of the initial page.

:-)

(My understanding is that the even the 65816 still does this, unless you
explicitly turn it off, for compatability reasons.)

cjs
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