Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
  • Conventions
• Initialization and Shutdown
  • Setting SSM Configuration Options
  • Adding VAS-Specific Options
• Storage Facilities
  • Devices
  • Volumes
  • Files of Records
  • B+tree Indexes
  • R*Tree Indexes
  • Identifiers
• Transaction Facilities
  • Transactions
  • Concurrency Control
• Crash Recovery Facilities
  • Logging
  • Checkpointing
  • Recovery
• Thread Management
  • Latches
  • Thread-Protected Hash Tables
• Error Handling
• Communication and RPC Facilities
• Miscellaneous Facilities
  • Statistics
  • Sorting
  • Data Vectors
• Writing and Compiling a VAS and Client
  • Include Files and Libraries
  • Template Instantiation
  • Other Example Code
• References