Derrick Stolee <sto...@gmail.com> writes:

> The index extension documentation doesn't appear to be clear about
> which extensions are optional or required, but it seems the
> split-index is the only "required" one and uses lowercase for its
> extension id.

read-cache.c::

    /* Index extensions.
     *
     * The first letter should be 'A'..'Z' for extensions that are not
     * necessary for a correct operation (i.e. optimization data).
     * When new extensions are added that _needs_ to be understood in
     * order to correctly interpret the index file, pick character that
     * is outside the range, to cause the reader to abort.
     */

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