The original approach was made for RocksDB where it is beneficial
to keep keys of stuff related to each other close to each other.
However, as RocksDB is no longer the primary focus, it just causes
additional cost to dig out the table names.
The key is a 64-bit integer, but crc32 only gives us a 32-bit one.
We create an other 32-bit value by running crc32 over the same SQL,
using the first crc value as adler.
I think that further reduces the chance for clashes:
uint32_t crc0 = crc32(0, Z_NULL, 0);
uint32_t crc1;
uint32_t crc2;
crc1 = crc32(crc0, "codding", 7) => 1774765869
crc2 = crc32(crc1, "codding", 7) => 1409592046
crc1 = crc32(crc0, "gnu", 3) => 1774765869
crc2 = crc32(crc1, "gnu", 3) => 1213798908
Note that the first value is the same, but the second is not.
987a52b398