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Exercise 9.20 Consider a list-based organization of the pages in a heap file in which two...

Exercise 9.20 Consider a list-based organization of the pages in a heap file in which two lists are maintained: a list of all pages in the file and a list of all pages with free space. In contrast, the list-based organization discussed in the text maintains a list of full pages and a list of pages with free space.

  1. What are the trade-offs, if any? Is one of them clearly superior?
  2. For each of these organizations, describe a suitable page format.

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