Larry Boyd wrote:
>
> John wrote:

> >Furthermore (and I'm really going to display my ignorance here) isn't
> >the b-tree pointing to the key and not the record number, thereby
> >forcing the read down the synonym chain anyway?
>
> And this is true... Once the value is found, the master key is taken
> from b-tree and used to find the record in the Master dataset.

OK, I guess it was me displaying my ignorance.  I had presumed that the
b-tree held the record number.  If it simply has the key value, then
most of my argument was moot.

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>