[Kstars-devel] strategies for expanding the size of catalogs

[Mike Rosseel]

> I don't think any of the dimmer stars will have names so fixed fields
> should not be a problem.  We can easily create indexes for each file
> telling us how far down certain magnitudes are.  I've already done

maybe that's what you meant already, but if the indexes are made at
compile time there's no need for fixed field lengths: plenty of time
to crawl through the files and create the index.

Mike