Re: Big 7.1 open items

> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > I also suggested creating an extent directory to hold extents, like
> > extent/2 and extent/3. This will allow administration for smaller sites
> > to be simpler.
>
> I don't see the value in creating an extra level of directory --- seems
> that just adds one more Unix directory-lookup cycle to each file open,
> without any apparent return. What's wrong with extent directory names
> like extent2, extent3, etc?
>
> Obviously the extent dirnames must be chosen so they can't conflict
> with table filenames, but that's easily done. For example, if table
> files are named like 'OID_xxx' then 'extentN' will never conflict.

We could call them extent.2, extent-2, or Extent-2.

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