The metadata paragraph files (MPFs) are where Sybase Search stores the metadata and text of the files it has indexed. This data is used in constructing result sets and for generating plain-text versions of the indexed documents.
The MPF is a custom data structure—each contains the metadata and body text of a number of indexed documents (“Configuring MPFs”) in a compressed format. The first group of MPFs is created in the 0 (zero) directory, and subsequent groups are numbered sequentially beginning with 1.
