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Persisted locator table, replayed forward from the WAL on open. Record map: which extent holds which memory, persisted at checkpoints.
The engine keeps the whole locator to extent table in memory; every read resolves its locator through it. The table is persisted at checkpoint time and replayed forward from the WAL on open, so a cold open reads no records.
§Anchoring
Each checkpoint that changed the table appends a Checkpoint WAL entry
whose payload is a random 16 byte token, then writes the snapshot stamped
with the same token, then truncates the WAL to that entry. The table now is
the snapshot plus every WAL entry after the entry carrying its token. A
snapshot whose token is not in the WAL can never be matched again, because
tokens are never reused for a changed table. On any doubt (missing,
corrupt, unmatched, inconsistent with the file) open falls back to a scan of
the record chain.
Each entry also carries a stamp, a value refreshed on every write to the record, which lets derived caches (mode probes, salience bounds) persist alongside and detect, without loading the record, that it changed since they were captured.
Structs§
- Mapped
Memory - A memory the map knows about: its id, its locator, and its write stamp.
Constants§
- MEMORY_
MAP_ FILE - File name of the persisted record map inside the database directory.