Curt Sampson wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > (In related news, how about filling up the oid/relfilenode numbers with > > > zeros on the left, so a directory listing would reflect the numerical > > > order?) > > > > Problem there is that we increase the size of much of the directory > > lookups. Not sure if it is worth worrying about. > > Probably not such a big deal, since most systems will be reading > a full block (8K or 16K under *BSD) to load the directory information > anyway. Doing it in hex would give you only 8-char filenames, anyway.
Yes, hex may be interesting as a more compact, consistent format. We need to change the docs so oid2name and queries convert to hex on output. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
