On 10/28/10 9:55 AM, Kiran Ayyagari wrote:
>
>>> One small last thing : currently, indexes files are named using the
>>> Attribute OID. I find it not very friendly. Can't we use the Alias instead
>>> ?
> -1, there is a reason we changed back to OID, it is to avoid creating
> duplicate indexes
> on the same AT.
>
> If we use alias then there is no way to check them,
> e.x if user creates two indexes on "cn" and "commonName" then jdbm
> creates "cn.db" and "commonName.db" which we cannot distinguish during
> creation
We can check that using the SchemaManager, which is available when we 
create the files. AT.getName() always return the first alias.
> Another case is to find which indexes are no longer needed when user
> removes them from config.
Same, using the SM will do the trick.
> We store a OID.txt file with AT's definition alongside the index files
> to let the user know what that indexed attribute is.
Do we? Never saw this file.

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Emmanuel Lécharny
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