Re: Indexed file (RMS) IRC$V_RRV question

JF Mezei wrote:
Bill Todd wrote:
No, since the RRV has nothing to do with finding the next bucket: its purpose is to find a record that originated in the bucket but has since moved elsewhere (and there's one for each such record).


Under what circumstances would an RRV record in a data bucket not point to the same bucket as the bkt$l_nxtbkt in that bucket's header ?

When the record it points to is not in the next bucket in primary key sequence. You yourself gave an example of such a case with your 'ZZZZ' record.



OK, thinking about it:

Would it be correct to state that the RRV record is like a QBUS grant-continuity card that tells RMS to continue searching in the next bucket for records with the same rrv_vbn ?

No: it is a direct pointer to the original record in whatever bucket now contains it, wherever that bucket may be.

- bill
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