SERVER-51503 support creating system.buckets.X collections

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/mongo/db/namespace_string.h b/src/mongo/db/namespace_string.h
index a47014a3321..b5573ad92f2 100644
--- a/src/mongo/db/namespace_string.h
+++ b/src/mongo/db/namespace_string.h
@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ public:
     // Prefix for temporary resharding collection.
     static constexpr StringData kTemporaryReshardingCollectionPrefix = "system.resharding."_sd;
 
+    // Prefix for time-series buckets collection.
+    static constexpr StringData kTimeseriesBucketsCollectionPrefix = "system.buckets."_sd;
+
     // Namespace for storing configuration data, which needs to be replicated if the server is
     // running as a replica set. Documents in this collection should represent some configuration
     // state of the server, which needs to be recovered/consulted at startup. Each document in this
@@ -308,6 +311,16 @@ public:
     bool isTemporaryReshardingCollection() const;
 
     /**
+     * Returns whether the specified namespace is <database>.system.buckets.<>.
+     */
+    bool isTimeseriesBucketsCollection() const;
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the time-series buckets namespace for this view.
+     */
+    NamespaceString makeTimeseriesBucketsNamespace() const;
+
+    /**
      * Returns whether a namespace is replicated, based only on its string value. One notable
      * omission is that map reduce `tmp.mr` collections may or may not be replicated. Callers must
      * decide how to handle that case separately.