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.
cjs
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