Disk-Space Allocation for System Catalog Tables
The database server searches the chunk free-list pages in the dbspace, looking for free space in which to create the system catalog tables. For each system catalog table, in turn, the database server allocates eight contiguous pages, the size of the initial extent of each system catalog table. The tables are created individually and do not necessarily reside next to each other in the dbspace. They can be located in different chunks. As adequate space is found for the initial extent of each table, the pages are allocated, and the associated chunk free-list page is updated.