DEE and DUM

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Chris Walton
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DEE and DUM

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I have not got the usage of DEE and DUM sorted out. How do I amend the following examples to initialise a relvar to empty?

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VAR Test BASE RELATION { A0 INT } INIT ( RELATION { TUPLE { A0 999 } } ) KEY { A0 };
Ok.
VAR Test1 BASE RELATION { A0 INT } INIT ( DEE ) KEY { A0 };
ERROR: Variable of type RELATION {A0 INTEGER} cannot be initialised with an expression of type RELATION {}
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VAR Test2 BASE RELATION { A0 INT } INIT ( DUM ) KEY { A0 };
ERROR: Variable of type RELATION {A0 INTEGER} cannot be initialised with an expression of type RELATION {}
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Dave
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Re: DEE and DUM

Post by Dave »

Defining relvars initialises them to empty, so you can omit the "INIT (...)" clause. Alternatively, you could do:

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DELETE Test;
DELETE Test1;
DELETE Test2;
Chris Walton
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Re: DEE and DUM

Post by Chris Walton »

I was not clear enough about what I was trying to do. I was trying to insert, into a relvar which has a RVA, values which contained an empty relation for the RVA. After some experimentation I have found the following works.

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VAR T1 BASE RELATION { A0 CHAR, R0 RELATION { B1 INT, B2 CHAR } } KEY { A0 };
Ok.
INSERT T1 RELATION { TUPLE { A0 "Test", R0 RELATION { B1 INT, B2 CHAR } { } } };
NOTICE: Inserted 1 tuple.
Ok.
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