[MonetDB-users] how to use DataCell

17 Jul 2012

      I would like to start experimenting with MonetDB/DataCell but am having 
trouble getting started. I read M. Kersten, E. Liarou, and R. Goncalves. 
A Query Language for a Data Refinery Cell. In EDA-PS, 2007.  In section 
2.1 of that paper it has the following syntax for creating a basket:
create basket X(
     tag timestamp default now(),
     id serial,
     payload integer
);

When I input this to mclient (Apr2012-SP2 version) I get:
42000!syntax error, unexpected IDENT, expecting INDEX in: "create basket"

In the source code in the file 
sql/test/BugTracker-2011/Tests/UDF_in_schema.Bug-2817.sql begins with:

create schema datacell;
create table datacell.basket_X(
     id integer auto_increment,
     tag timestamp default now(),
     payload integer
);

This obviously resembles the above but seems like it is creating a 
normal table rather than a basket.

Has the syntax for creating a basket changed?

Or should I load/enable the datacell extension in some way?

thanks
Greg

[MonetDB-users] how to use DataCell

Greg Aumann