Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of pstamp_data_store

Timestamp:

Sep 10, 2009, 4:40:30 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

bills

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 A data store is divided into 3 levels. 
-The root has a set of ''products''. [http://] Each product contains filesets.
-Each fileset is a list of files.
+The root has a set of ''products''. A product contains filesets.
+Each fileset is a set of related files. In the postage stamp server context the filesets are sets of postage stamp request files and the results of the request processing.
+
+The header of each postage stamp request file has a keyword REQ_NAME which gives the name of the request. This value must be globally unique. The postage stamp server puts the results of postage stamp processing the request file into a fileset with that name.
 
 
-The page [http://ps1sc.ifa.hawaii.edu/PS1wiki/index.php/DataStoreExamples#Data_Store_Examples] on the PS1SC wiki
-has links to some Data Store examples.
+The password protected page [http://ps1sc.ifa.hawaii.edu/PS1wiki/index.php/DataStoreExamples#Data_Store_Examples]
+on the PS1SC wiki has links to some Data Store examples.
 
+The IPP's Data Store implementation is based on the apache web server, some simple cgi scripts, and mysql tables.
+Alternate implementations may be easily created. 
+
+The most significant feature is the 'last fileset' query string.
+