[Info-vax] C... the only winning move is not to play...

[JF Mezei]

On 14-02-18 11:13, Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:

> Indexed files (expect RSX PROLOGUE-1) have the primary key moved to the front of the record and may be compressed.

This is new to me ! So if my primary key is defined as being at offset
24 for 4 bytes, on disk it is actually stored at offset 0 for 4 bytes ?

Or is the record intact on disk, but you just *copy* the primary key to
the start of the buffer when in memory, but the user is given a pointer
to the actual start of the record (after the copy of primary key)

Why was this done ?