Re: [PATCHES] CLUSTER not lose indexes

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.

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