item

Definition/General, Releases: AP and R83

A collection of attributes, values, and subvalues.

Description

the fundamental directly accessable aggregation of data in Pick.

An item may be composed of one or more attributes, which may be composed of one or more values, which may in turn be composed of one or more subvalues.

Each item is statistically 'hashed' to a group within a file based on the content and length of the item-id, or key to the item.

See Also

Command Name Type Description
hashing Definition Pick's retrieval algorithm.
value Definition Field used to store data within an attribute.
sub-value Definition Field used to store data within a value.
item-id Definition The key to an item.
attribute Definition Field used to store data within an item.
access.list-item Verb: Access Displays item in storage format.

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