The Big Sur Schema

April 24, 1995

Richard Troy				Paul Brown
rtroy@postgres.berkeley.edu		pbrown@postgres.berkeley.edu


This "tar wad" contains all the necessary components to implement
an instance of the BigSur schema, along with all of its accompanying
"infrastructure" components (eg. new datatypes). It is intended that
the target environment be a working Illustra installation. The
mechanism by which it is "installed" is the "make" utility.

At present, maintenance of this collection is performed by Mike
Stonebrakers Database Development staff: Paul Brown and Richard
Troy (addresses above). The database schema itself has a small
team assigned to flush out issues and solutions, headed by Jean
Anderson: jta@cts.com.

   The sections below are;
 
     BigSur  - This directory contains the Schema and html stuff for
               the BigSur schema and infrastructure docs. 

     Dlobh   - This is the source and principle ports for the 
               Distributed Large Object Handle datatype. Paul Brown
               wrote the 'C' version of this based on an idea
               by Jean Anderson. Further work on DLOBH is likely to
		expand the architecture somewhat.

     MiTcl   - This is the embedding of libmi from Illustra into
               John Ousterhout's Tcl/Tk toolkit.

     MiBrowse - This is an application written to employ mitcl. It
		is escentially a gui version of "msql" along with
		some extra system admin features.

     OK - This directory contains the Illustra Object Knowledge "Project"
		(application) called NewWorldOrder. This Project is the
		first prototype illustrating how to use the schema. To
		load it you need Illustra OK installed (on a Sun), and
		then simply "import" it via the OK Project Editor.