Fillvalues

• To: NETCDFGROUP%EDU.UCAR.UNIDATA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: Fillvalues
• From: MAVERICK <ATAE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 15 Dec 1994 16:44 GMT

G'Day

Currently fillvalues are physically inserted into missing records
(unless I am doing something wrong). This usually means a great
deal of wasted disc space. Is there the possibility to just add
a reference to filled records, and the actual fill value to be used,
instead of physically inserting the fillvalues ? This situation
would be similar to what standard RDMS's such as Oracle and Sybase
do in this respect.


        best regards
                Ata <(|)>.
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