Re: [pcp] Proposal for handling dynamic metric names (and hence dynamic metrics)

[Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 12:23 +1000, Mark Goodwin wrote:
> With the int flags:2 approach, we'd still have one unused flag combo
> available for future use. With the domain extension, we'll have zilch.
> Probably should've made the darn things uint64 in the first place!
> 
> Just a thought :) I'll go with the domain extension.

Since it has taken a little under 16 years for us to come to the
realization that we need one flag bit in the PMID, I'd be willing to bet
that the second flag bit probably won't be needed until somewhere
between the years 2025 (linear extrapolation) and 2265 (exponential
extrapolation) ... and in either case, it won't be my problem ... 8^)>