> Is this the status of 5.1 at this time (i.e disk based storage is
> functional)?
It is not enabled in current 5.1. I was just clarifying
how it will work.
> The reason being, I checked out 5.1(.3) to examine the new clustering
> and partitioning features, However loading a table bigger than my
> allocated datamemory is not working for me (see below).
It is not automatic-to-disk, even when available. The bug though
is real, it should have returned a nice error code.
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