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RE: Are rowids always in increasing order?

Posted By: Andrew Hamm
Date: Thursday, 22 April 2004, at 7:56 p.m.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean Sagi [mailto:jeansagi@myrealbox.com]

>I wonder if anyone one knows if IDS (9.3) asigns
>rowids in increasing order?
>I mean Always.

NO.

>In the documentation it is stated that:

>"The database server assigns to each row in the
>rowid column a unique number that remains stable
>for the life of the row."

Even this is not true. Several things can cause a row to get a new rowid:

1) reloading. Fairly obvious really....

2) applying a cluster index.

3) "inplace alters" followed by an update of the row.

The last one needs explaining.

When you ALTER TABLE and do one of a set number of changes, eg adding or
removing a column, or some "safe" data type changes of a column, the
database engine does NOT rewrite the table. Instead, it keeps a record of
each version of a row, and leaves the row in the old state. When you fetch a
row, the data given to you is secretly transformed to the new shape. This
only happens to the copy of the row that is fetched: the physical row in the
table is not transformed just because you've selected it.

However, when you update a row, the row needs to be rewritten, and the
engine does not try to stuff the row back into the old slot. That would be
impossible in the case of new or bigger columns, so the engine doesn't even
try. When you update, the row is written in the new shape. This almost
always causes the row to be written somewhere else, which means that an
updated row may get a different ROWID.

It used to be the case that you could safely count on a rowid being stable
over the duration of a transaction, but even that is not true any more.

One of the worst mistakes you can make is to store a rowid in another table
and expect it to be useful to get the referred row.

As for allocation of the rowids, they are not sequential because the rowid
is based on a formula calculation that dpends on the page number and the
offset within the page. They are not necessarily increasing because the page
used to store a new row may be "further back" in the table space - ie a page
with a lesser address than the last page used.

Summary: never use rowids; NEVER store rowids; you are even taking a risk
these days using them temporarily in 4GL code.

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