Forum OpenACS Development: Re: max_child_sortkey purpose

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Posted by Dave Bauer on 11/08/05 07:38 PM
max_child_sortkey is a caching feature. It is used to speed up insertion of objects into tables with a tree_sortkey.

The calculation of the next child can be expensive so this makes it faster.