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Re: question

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From: Spiros Papadimitriou <spapadim+@cs.cmu.edu>
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> It is actually impossible to shorten a record because there is no public
> method in HFPage that will let you change the record length that HFPage
> stores internally. But I assume we don't have to worry about this.

I would not say "impossible"--you can always delete and re-insert at
the buffer manager level.  It might make sense, it might not (esp. in
terms of efficiency).  Design decisions... :-)  But, to answer what
you probably care about most: no, you do not need to worry! :-)

Spiros