Jeff writes:
 
> We discussed this many months ago, and many felt (and I still do) that the
> old dbinfo() capacity should return the max capacity for DDX-enabled sets,
> not the currently-allocated capacity.  In the current implementation, the
 
What if DDX expansion was triggered when the #available entries in the
dataset drops to, say, 1 (or 10 or 20?), instead of when it drops
to 0?
 
Thus, if an application says:
 
   if #entries_in_set < current_capacity then
      do real work
   else
      complain
 
that application will be work correctly with DDX.
 
The only "too-smart" application that wouldn't work is one that says:
 
   if #entries_in_set + #I_intend_to_add <= current_capacity then
      do real work
   else
      complain
 
Because, if #I_intend_to_add > 1 (or 10 or 20), the "early expansion trigger"
above wouldn't be quite enough.
 
 
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