Re: Date field's and their file space usage. -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Date field's and their file space usage.
From: Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:32:35 -0500
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Rob,

> Looks like 10 bytes to me.  But I am sure there is an explanation.

It *looks* like 10 bytes in data file buffers, but the disk
consumption itself is only 4 bytes per field.  Even trigger buffers
have the 10 character decoded value, as the conversion happens at a
lower level in the data mgmt routines.

Doug

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