File DBModelSystemImpl.mesa
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Contents: Initialization of and operations on system tuples
Last modified by:
Eric Bier on: 18-Aug-81 14:48:57
Rick Cattell on: September 14, 1983 4:19 pm
Willie-Sue on February 15, 1985 5:21:28 pm PST
DIRECTORY
Basics USING [LowHalf],
DBStorage,
DBTuplesConcrete,
DBEnvironment,
DB,
DBModel,
DBModelPrivate,
Rope USING [ROPE, Concat];
DBModelSystemImpl: CEDAR PROGRAM
IMPORTS DBStorage, DBModel, DBModelPrivate, Basics, Rope
EXPORTS DB, DBModelPrivate, DBEnvironment =
BEGIN OPEN DBStorage, DB, DBModelPrivate, DBModel;
ROPE: TYPE = Rope.ROPE;
Error and Fatal signals, exported to both DB and DBEnvironment:
Error: PUBLIC SIGNAL[code: DBEnvironment.ErrorCode] = CODE;
Aborted: PUBLIC ERROR [trans: REF ANY] = CODE;
InternalError: PUBLIC SIGNAL = CODE;
Failure: PUBLIC ERROR[trans: REF ANY, what: ATOM, info: Rope.ROPE] = CODE;
Opaque type objects: exported (from DBTuplesConcrete) to DBModel
TupleObject: PUBLIC TYPE = DBTuplesConcrete.TupleObject;
EntityObject: PUBLIC TYPE = TupleObject;
RelshipObject: PUBLIC TYPE = TupleObject;
EntitySetObject: PUBLIC TYPE = DBTuplesConcrete.EntitySetObject;
RelshipSetObject: PUBLIC TYPE = DBTuplesConcrete.RelshipSetObject;
REFS to opaque type objects
Tuple, TupleSet, Index, IndexFactor: TYPE = REF TupleObject;
Domain, Relation, Entity, Attribute, Property, DataType: PUBLIC TYPE = REF EntityObject;
Relship: PUBLIC TYPE = REF RelshipObject;
EntitySet: PUBLIC TYPE = REF EntitySetObject;
RelshipSet: PUBLIC TYPE = REF RelshipSetObject;
SystemATuple: TYPE = REF attribute TupleObject;
SystemTSTuple: TYPE = REF tupleSet TupleObject;
SystemETuple: TYPE = REF entity TupleObject;
T2SAT: PROC[t: TupleHandle] RETURNS [SystemATuple] =
BEGIN RETURN [NARROW[t]] END;
T2STT: PROC[t: TupleHandle] RETURNS [SystemTSTuple] =
INLINE BEGIN RETURN [NARROW[t]] END;
T2SET: PROC[t: TupleHandle] RETURNS [SystemETuple] =
INLINE BEGIN RETURN [NARROW[t]] END;
Value Types
AnyDomainType,
BoolType,
IntType,
RecordType,
TimeType,
RopeType: PUBLIC DataType;
The System tuple abstraction
systemTupleVec: PUBLIC REF STSVecType ← NEW[STSVecType← ALL[NIL]];
attributeIDCount: LONG CARDINAL← 0;
used in DefineSystemTupleSet and DefineSystemAttribute.
The system-defined domains, relations, and attributes: grouped by domains
Items declared to be Properties are attributes with no relation; we don't need the relation
because it is an internal private binary surrogate relation. The [binary] relations that the
client may access require both attributes and the relation entity itself, so that the client
may perform RelationSubset and do a GetP in both directions.
DomainDomain: PUBLIC Domain; -- one element per client-defined domain
dHandleProp: PUBLIC Property; -- the storage level tupleset handle
dIndexProp: PUBLIC Property; -- the storage level index handle for this domain
dSubType: PUBLIC Relation; -- one element per direct sub-super type relationship
dSubTypeOf: PUBLIC Attribute; -- domain: the super-type
dSubTypeIs: PUBLIC Attribute; -- domain: the sub-type
RelationDomain: PUBLIC Domain; -- one element per client-defined relation
rHandleProp: PUBLIC Property; -- the storage level tupleset handle
r1to1Prop: PUBLIC Property; -- TRUE iff this relation is a surrogate relation
AttributeDomain: PUBLIC Domain; -- one element per client-defined attribute
aHandleProp: PUBLIC Property; -- the storage level handle for this field
aTypeCodeProp: PUBLIC Property; -- tid of the type entity, or zero if domain-valued
aTypeEntityProp: PUBLIC Property; -- the domain this attribute refs, or NIL if datum-valued
aRelation: PUBLIC Relation; -- one element per client-defined attribute
aRelationOf: PUBLIC Attribute; -- the attribute
aRelationIs: PUBLIC Attribute; -- relation of the attribute
aType: PUBLIC Relation; -- one element per client-defined attribute
aTypeOf: PUBLIC Attribute; -- the attribute
aTypeIs: PUBLIC Attribute; -- domain or datatype of the attribute
aUniqueness: PUBLIC Relation; -- one element per client-defined attribute
aUniquenessOf: PUBLIC Attribute; -- the attribute
aUniquenessIs: PUBLIC Attribute; -- INT corresponding to its uniqueness
aLength: PUBLIC Relation; -- one element per client-defined attribute
aLengthOf: PUBLIC Attribute; -- the attribute
aLengthIs: PUBLIC Attribute; -- INT corresponding to attribute's length
aLink: PUBLIC Relation; -- one element per client-defined attribute
aLinkOf: PUBLIC Attribute; -- the attribute
aLinkIs: PUBLIC Attribute; -- INT corresponding to its LinkType.
aDomain: PUBLIC Relation; -- exported to DBModelPrivate: one elt per client-defined attribute
aDomainOf: PUBLIC Attribute; -- the attribute
aDomainIs: PUBLIC Attribute; -- non-NIL only if this is the first (targetted) attribute of
a surrogate relation, equals domain where actually
stored (i.e., equals aTypeEntityProp when non-NIL)
aUnlinked: PUBLIC Relation; -- exported to DBModelPrivate: one elt per client-defined attribute
aUnlinkedOf: PUBLIC Attribute; -- the attribute
aUnlinkedIs: PUBLIC Attribute; -- non-NIL only if this attribute is NOT linked, in which
case it equals aTypeProp (i.e., the domain referenced)
DataTypeDomain: PUBLIC Domain; -- RopeType, BoolType, etc. are of this domain
IndexDomain: PUBLIC Domain; -- one element per client-defined index
iHandleProp: PUBLIC Property; -- index handle, set by storage level
IndexFactorDomain: PUBLIC Domain; -- one element per attribute in an index
ifIndex: PUBLIC Relation; -- one element per attribute in an index (an "index factor")
ifIndexOf: PUBLIC Attribute; -- the index factor
ifIndexIs: PUBLIC Attribute; -- the index this index factor belongs to
ifOrdinalPosition: PUBLIC Relation; -- one element per index factor
ifOrdinalPositionOf: PUBLIC Attribute; -- the index factor
ifOrdinalPositionIs: PUBLIC Attribute; -- the position of this index factor in the ordering
ifAttribute: PUBLIC Relation; -- one element per index factor
ifAttributeOf: PUBLIC Attribute; -- the index factor
ifAttributeIs: PUBLIC Attribute; -- the attribute this index factor indexes
Other global variables, exported to DBModelPrivate:
defaultDomainIndex, defaultRelationIndex: PUBLIC DBStorage.IndexHandle;
defaultNameHandle, attributeNameHandle, tupleSetNameHandle: PUBLIC DBStorage.FieldHandle;
defaultNameAttribute: PUBLIC Attribute;
DefaultNameSize: CARDINAL = 20;
The following shouldn't go into DB because they might get used before initialized
minfString: PUBLIC ROPE ← ""; -- less than any other string
infString: PUBLIC ROPE ← "\177"; -- greater than any other string
InitializeSystemTuples: PUBLIC PROC = TRUSTED
BEGIN dNameProp, rNameProp, aNameProp: Domain; -- only need temporarily
DBStorage.SetSystemTupleTable[systemTupleVec];
Define the system domains
DomainDomain← DefineSystemDomain[DomainTSID, "Domain"];
RelationDomain← DefineSystemDomain[RelationTSID, "Relation"];
AttributeDomain← DefineSystemDomain[AttributeTSID, "Attribute"];
DataTypeDomain← DefineSystemDomain[DataTypeTSID, "DataType"];
IndexDomain← DefineSystemDomain[IndexTSID, "Index"];
IndexFactorDomain← DefineSystemDomain[IndexFactorTSID, "IndexFactor"];
Define the DataType entities
RopeType← DefineSystemEntity[RopeTypeID, DataTypeDomain, "RopeType"];
IntType← DefineSystemEntity[IntTypeID, DataTypeDomain, "IntType"];
TimeType← DefineSystemEntity[TimeTypeID, DataTypeDomain, "TimeType"];
BoolType← DefineSystemEntity[BoolTypeID, DataTypeDomain, "BoolType"];
RecordType← DefineSystemEntity[RecordTypeID, DataTypeDomain, "RecordType"];
AnyDomainType← DefineSystemEntity[AnyDomainTypeID, DataTypeDomain, "AnyDomainType"];
FakeTheNameHandle[]; -- must call after RopeType defined but before any real entities
Define (private) properties of domain, relation, attribute, and index entities
dHandleProp← DefinePrivateProperty[
DomainDomain, "dHandleProp", RecordType, DBStorage.TuplesetObjectSize];
dHandle must be first field for proper storage level operation!
dNameProp← DefinePrivateProperty[DomainDomain, "dName", RopeType, DefaultNameSize];
tupleSetNameHandle← T2SAT[dNameProp].vHandle;
dIndexProp← DefinePrivateProperty[DomainDomain, "dIndexProp", IndexDomain];
rHandleProp← DefinePrivateProperty[
RelationDomain, "rHandleProp", RecordType, DBStorage.TuplesetObjectSize];
rHandle must be first field for proper DBStorage operation!
rNameProp← DefinePrivateProperty[
RelationDomain, "rNameProp", RopeType, DefaultNameSize];
don't need handle because assume identical pos&size as tupleChangeNameHandle above
r1to1Prop← DefinePrivateProperty[RelationDomain, "r1to1", BoolType];
aHandleProp← DefinePrivateProperty[
AttributeDomain, "aHandleProp", RecordType, DBStorage.FieldObjectSize];
handle need not be first field, but make it that way anyway like other system tuples
aNameProp← DefinePrivateProperty[AttributeDomain, "aName", RopeType];
attributeNameHandle← T2SAT[aNameProp].vHandle;
aTypeCodeProp← DefinePrivateProperty[
AttributeDomain, "aTypeCodeProp", IntType];
aTypeEntityProp← DefinePrivateProperty[
AttributeDomain, "aTypeEntityProp", DomainDomain];
iHandleProp← DefinePrivateProperty[
IndexDomain, "iHandleProp", RecordType, DBStorage.IndexObjectSize];
iHandle must be first field of Index entity for proper DBStorage operation!
Define the system relations and their attributes
FakeTheTypeAndLinkRelations[];
[aRelation, aRelationOf, aRelationIs]← DefineSystemBinary[
id: aRelationTSID, name: "aRelation", of: AttributeDomain, is: RelationDomain];
[aUniqueness, aUniquenessOf, aUniquenessIs]← DefineSystemBinary[
id: aUniquenessTSID, name: "aUniqueness", of: AttributeDomain, is: IntType];
[aLength, aLengthOf, aLengthIs]← DefineSystemBinary[
id: aLengthTSID, name: "aLength", of: AttributeDomain, is: IntType];
[aDomain, aDomainOf, aDomainIs]← DefineSystemBinary[
id: aDomainTSID, name: "aDomain", of: AttributeDomain, is: DomainDomain];
[aUnlinked, aUnlinkedOf, aUnlinkedIs]← DefineSystemBinary[
id: aUnlinkedTSID, name: "aUnlinked", of: AttributeDomain, is: DomainDomain];
[ifIndex, ifIndexOf, ifIndexIs]← DefineSystemBinary[
id: ifIndexTSID, name: "ifIndex", of: IndexFactorDomain, is: IndexDomain];
[ifOrdinalPosition, ifOrdinalPositionOf, ifOrdinalPositionIs]← DefineSystemBinary[
id: ifOrdinalPositionTSID, name: "ifOrdinalPosition", of: IndexFactorDomain, is: IntType];
[ifAttribute, ifAttributeOf, ifAttributeIs]← DefineSystemBinary[
id: ifAttributeTSID, name: "ifAttribute", of: IndexFactorDomain, is: AttributeDomain];
[dSubType, dSubTypeOf, dSubTypeIs]← DefineSystemBinary[
id: dSubTypeTSID, name: "dSubType", of: DomainDomain, is: DomainDomain, is1to1: FALSE];
END;
FakeTheNameHandle: PROC =
Sets up fake relation so that defaultNameHandle will work.
Must be called after RopeType defined.
BEGIN
fakeReln: TupleSet← DefineSystemTupleSet[DummyID, "fakeReln", FALSE, FALSE];
defaultNameAttribute← DefineSystemField[fakeReln, "defaultNameAttribute", RopeType];
defaultNameHandle← T2SAT[defaultNameAttribute].vHandle;
END;
FakeTheTypeAndLinkRelations: PROC =
The aType and aLink relations are tricky, to achieve better performance than the
obvious implementation. They are actually defined on two underlying properties,
the aTypeCodeProp and the aTypeEntityProp, which are surrogate attributes of the
attribute entities. When we do operations on aType or aLink, we must trap them,
interpreting aTypeCodeProp and aTypeEntityProp as follows:
(1) If aTypeEntityProp=NIL, then we have a non-entity-valued attribute, and the
aTypeCodeProp is the tid of the system DataType entity (e.g., RopeType, IntType).
(2) If aTypeEntityProp#NIL, then it references the domain that is the type of the
attribute, and aTypeCodeProp= 0 or -1 depending on whether it is linked or not linked.
Operations fetching or setting aType and aLink are trapped in the low-level procedures
GetValFromHandle and SetValFromHandle, so that they do not need to be checked
separately in GetF, SurrogateGetF, GetP, SetF, etc. The low level procedures have
only the handle for the attribute available, not the attribute itself; they thus must
do equality comparison to the aTypeIs.vHandle or aLinkIs.vHandle; so the handle is needed
merely for its unique pointer value, not for the DBStorage.FieldHandleObject it points to.
BEGIN
aType← DefineSystemTupleSet[
id: aTypeTSID, name: "aType", isDomain: FALSE, is1to1: TRUE];
aTypeOf← DefineSystemFieldObject[aType, "aTypeOf", AttributeDomain];
aTypeIs← DefineSystemField[aType, "aTypeIs", DataTypeDomain];
T2SAT[aTypeIs].vHandle← T2SAT[aTypeEntityProp].vHandle; -- so group scans work on type
T2SAT[aTypeOf].vRelation← T2SAT[aTypeIs].vRelation← aType;
T2STT[aType].vAttributes← LIST[aTypeOf, aTypeIs];
aLink← DefineSystemTupleSet[
id: aLinkTSID, name: "aLink", isDomain: FALSE, is1to1: TRUE];
aLinkOf← DefineSystemFieldObject[aLink, "aLinkOf", AttributeDomain];
aLinkIs← DefineSystemField[aLink, "aLinkIs", IntType];
T2STT[aLink].vAttributes← LIST[aLinkOf, aLinkIs];
T2SAT[aLinkOf].vRelation← T2SAT[aLinkIs].vRelation← aLink;
END;
DefineSystemDomain: PROC [id: LONG CARDINAL, name: ROPE] RETURNS [Domain] =
INLINE {RETURN[DefineSystemTupleSet[id, name, TRUE, FALSE]]};
DefineSystemBinary: PROC [
id: LONG CARDINAL, name: ROPE, of: DataType, is: DataType, is1to1: BOOLTRUE]
RETURNS [r: Relation, rOf, rIs: Attribute] =
Defines a binary system relation and attributes with types specified by of and is.
The system relation entity is given the tuple id specified, and attributes are allocated ids.
The attributes types are "of" and "is" respectively. The relation is given the specified name,
and the attributes are given the specified name postfixed by the strings "Of" and "Is".
If is1to1=TRUE, then relation is a "surrogate" relation, and the values are actually stored
as fields of the domain type of "of".
BEGIN
r← DefineSystemTupleSet[id, name, FALSE, is1to1];
IF is1to1 THEN
The "is" attribute is actually a field of of's domain, not of the relation
BEGIN
rOf← DefineSystemFieldObject[of, Rope.Concat[name, "Of"], of];
rIs← DefineSystemField[of, Rope.Concat[name, "Is"], is, DefaultNameLength];
END
ELSE
Normal attributes: fields of r.
BEGIN
rOf← DefineSystemField[r, Rope.Concat[name, "Of"], of];
rIs← DefineSystemField[r, Rope.Concat[name, "Is"], is, DefaultNameLength];
END;
T2STT[r].vAttributes← LIST[rOf, rIs];
T2SAT[rOf].vRelation← T2SAT[rIs].vRelation← r;
END;
DefineSystemTupleSet: PROC[id: LONG CARDINAL, name: ROPE, isDomain: BOOL, is1to1: BOOL] RETURNS[TupleSet] = TRUSTED
Defines a system domain or relation, according to the value of isDomain.
BEGIN t: SystemTSTuple;
IF id>MaxVTID THEN ERROR InternalError;
t← T2STT[DBStorage.ConsSystemTupleObject[tupleSet]];
t.tid← id;
t.vTuple← DBStorage.CreateSystemTupleset[id]; -- SLevel tuple representing this abstraction
t.vName← name; -- name of this tupleset.
t.vR1to1← is1to1;
t.vIsDomain← isDomain;
systemTupleVec[Basics.LowHalf[id]]← t;
RETURN[t]
END;
DefineSystemField: PROC[
ts: TupleSet, name: ROPE, type: DataType, length: CARDINAL← 0] RETURNS[Attribute] = TRUSTED
Used as a subroutine to DefineSystemBinary and DefinePrivateProperty, to define a
field of domain or relation ts with the given name, type, and length if applicable.
BEGIN
f: Attribute← DefineSystemFieldObject[ts, name, type];
add a field to ts to hold values of this type:
T2SAT[f].vHandle← DBStorage.AddSystemField[T2STT[ts].vTuple, MakeFD[type, length,, f]];
RETURN[f]
END;
DefineSystemFieldObject: PROC[
ts: TupleSet, name: ROPE, type: DataType] RETURNS[Attribute] = TRUSTED
Used as a subroutine to DefineSystemField and DefineSystemBinary.
Defines the storage level object for a system field, though doesn't actually create the field.
BEGIN
t: SystemATuple← T2SAT[DBStorage.ConsSystemTupleObject[attribute]];
t.tid← FirstAttributeID + attributeIDCount;
t.vType← type; -- what type this attribute can point to
t.vName← name; -- attribute name
attributeIDCount← attributeIDCount+1;
IF FirstAttributeID+attributeIDCount>MaxVTID THEN SIGNAL InternalError;
systemTupleVec[Basics.LowHalf[attributeIDCount+FirstAttributeID-1]]← t;
RETURN[t]
END;
DefineSystemEntity: PROC[
id: LONG CARDINAL, d: Domain, name: ROPE] RETURNS [Entity] = TRUSTED
Use only for DataTypes; creates a system entity object.
BEGIN
e: SystemETuple← T2SET[DBStorage.ConsSystemTupleObject[entity]];
e.tid← id;
e.vName← name;
e.vParent← d;
systemTupleVec[Basics.LowHalf[id]]← e;
RETURN[e]
END;
DefinePrivateProperty: PROC [
d: Domain, name: ROPE, type: DataType, length: INT← 0] RETURNS [Property] =
Adds an "invisible" new system relation which is actually a surrogate relation stored
as a field of the domain d. We use this instead of DefineSystemBinary when the client
doesn't actually need access to the relation, so we can just define the field alone.
This proc turns out to be implemented by calling DefineSystemField, but is logically
quite different since we are defining an "attribute" of a domain, not a relation. We fake
the call by pretending the domain is a relation (they are both TupleSets, the same type).
We add the fake attribute to the vAttributes list on the domain, so it can be used to
optimize SafeGetP and other operations.
BEGIN fakeAttribute: Attribute;
fakeAttribute← DefineSystemField[d, name, type, length];
T2STT[d].vAttributes← CONS[fakeAttribute, T2STT[d].vAttributes];
T2SAT[fakeAttribute].vRelation← d;
RETURN[fakeAttribute]
END;
Operations on system tuples
SystemDomainSubset: PUBLIC PROC[
d: Domain, lowName, highName: ROPE, segment: Segment] RETURNS [es: EntitySet] = TRUSTED
Domain d must be DomainDomain or RelationDomain. We implement an index scan on the
domain or relation index in the given segment, with names in the given range.
Note that there is no tuple set scan possible through domains or relations, because
the storage level provides no links through the system tuples.
Scans on the AttributeDomain, IndexDomain, and IndexFactorDomain are not currently
implemented. They must be accessed via system relations instead.
If segment=NIL, all segments are searched, by creating a recursive "segment" EntitySet.
Otherwise just the given segment is searched.
BEGIN
MakeIndexScan: PROC[indexToScan: DBStorage.IndexHandle] RETURNS[EntitySet] = TRUSTED
BEGIN
tsScan: DBStorage.IndexScanHandle;
[lowName, highName]← NCodeAndDefaultLimits[lowName, highName];
tsScan← DBStorage.OpenScanIndex[indexToScan, [lowName, highName, TRUE, TRUE], First ];
RETURN[NEW[EntitySetObject[index] ← [index[tsScan]]]];
END;
IF segment=NIL THEN
es← NEW[EntitySetObject[segment] ← [segment[
remainingSegments: DBModel.QGetSegments[],
domain: d,
lowName: lowName,
highName: highName,
start: First,
currentEntitySet: NIL]]]
ELSE SELECT d FROM
DomainDomain =>
es← MakeIndexScan[GetDomainIndex[segment]];
RelationDomain =>
es← MakeIndexScan[GetRelationIndex[segment]];
ENDCASE => {SIGNAL Error[NotImplemented]; RETURN[NIL]};
END;
SystemGetP: PUBLIC PROC [e: Entity, aIs: Attribute] RETURNS [v: Value] = TRUSTED
Fetches properties of system entities. Need only work with single-valued properties.
System entities are not defined to have the following properties:
dHandleProp, dIndexProp dSubTypeOf, dSubTypeIs, rHandleProp
aTypeCodeProp, aTypeEntityProp, aRelationIs.
BEGIN
WITH e^ SELECT FROM
e1: TupleObject[tupleSet] => -- e is one of the five system domains
SELECT aIs FROM
r1to1Prop => v← NEW[BOOL← e1.vR1to1];
ENDCASE => SIGNAL Error[NotImplemented];
e1: TupleObject[attribute] => -- e is one of the system attributes
SELECT aIs FROM
aHandleProp => v← e1.vHandle;
aTypeIs => v← e1.vType;
aRelationIs => v← e1.vRelation;
aLinkIs => v← NEW[BOOLTRUE];
ENDCASE => SIGNAL Error[NotImplemented];
ENDCASE => SIGNAL Error[NotImplemented]; -- No other kinds implemented
RETURN[v]
END;
SystemGetName: PUBLIC PROC [e: Entity] RETURNS [ROPE] =
BEGIN
WITH e^ SELECT FROM
e1: TupleObject[tupleSet] =>
RETURN[e1.vName];
e1: TupleObject[attribute] =>
RETURN[e1.vName];
e1: TupleObject[entity] =>
RETURN[e1.vName];
ENDCASE => SIGNAL Error[NotImplemented];
RETURN[NIL]
END;
NCodeAndDefaultLimits: PROC [low, high: ROPE] RETURNS [newLow, newHigh: ROPE] = TRUSTED
Used by DomainSubset and RelationSubset to default limits on an index search. The
rules are: (1) if both high and low limits are NIL, the whole index is searched.
(2) if just the high limit is NIL, it defaults to the low limit, (3) any any case, we
must call NCode to convert to all upper case.
BEGIN
IF high=NIL THEN
IF low=NIL THEN {low← minfString; high← infString}
ELSE {low← NCode[low]; high← low}
ELSE
{low← NCode[low]; high← NCode[high]};
RETURN[low, high]
END;
END.
Last edited by:
Cattell on 19-Dec-81 9:31:31: Changed iTupleSetProp and ifXXXProps to have underlying attributes. Bug had arisen when attempted to do GroupScan on iTupleSetProp, because there was no underlying attribute and therefore no unique fieldID to do the groupscan upon (a random memory location had been used). Decided to disallow entity-reffing fields without explicit underlying attributes so this won't happen (so DefineSystemProperty only works with simple-valued attributes).
Cattell on 19-Dec-81 9:31:31: Changed aType* stuff around; may have to do more on this.
Cattell on 29-Dec-81 16:09:49: Almost completely rewrote SystemDomainSubset: handle more special cases and do so correctly.
Cattell on April 28, 1982 9:42 am: Added call to NCode in SystemDomainSubset and DesiredPropValue, so upper-case-only works.
Cattell on August 2, 1982 11:16 pm: SubType relation attributes should be DomainDomain type, not AnyDomainType.
Cattell on November 4, 1982 11:24 am: Conversion to new property scheme. This involves complete rework of system relations and domains, and the procedures used to initialize them. SystemRelationSubset and SystemGetP also rewritten.
Cattell on December 17, 1982 5:18 pm: Converstion to new segment scheme, new Error scheme.
Changed by Willie-Sue on February 15, 1985
made Cedar, added tioga formatting; added trans arg to Failure