pagesize/pagecount change in beta4

Hello

I have a database that uses a lot of collections (several thousand) and 
wanted to move from xindice 1.1 beta2 to 1.1 beta4, and found the 
following problem: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31159

Looking at the code (Paged.java) I see that in both beta2 and beta4 the 
pagesize was 4096, and pagecount was 1024, but looking at the .tbl files 
on the disk (just a 'blank' database with system collection) shows great 
difference in size between beta2 (12Kb per .tbl) and beta4 (6Mb per 
.tbl). So what really changed ?

Having a database with many collections upgrading to beta4 means a lot 
of space.
So what can I do ?

Looking at the code, I can edit Paged.java and changed the pagesize and 
pagecount to match my needs. Does anyone have any suggestion on finding 
the right ones (I assume changing these can impact performance) ? Have 
anyone played with these ?

And moreover, is there a way so I can change through the configuration 
file the pagesize for all the collections created (some of their names 
are IDs computed at runtime)? I did not succeeded  in setting pagesize 
in the configuration file not even per collection name, for a single 
collection.
Also since collections in my case are created through XML RPC, can I 
supply a pagesize option when creating a collection ? (as an alternate 
method, relying on the client instead of server).

Thanks
Catalin Braica