Hi Meng, to get the MonetDB FITS support, you need to have the cfitsio-dev[el] package installed and you need to configure MonetDB with "--enable-fits". However, while the respective code is more than 2 years old, I just realize that there is no (user-)documentation for it, and so far, support for fits files is only available in MAL, but not (yet?) in SQL. Since the original author of that code is no longer with out group, I currently cannot estimate, when we will have the resources to make this experimental code user-/production-ready. If you are familiar with MAL, please have a look at $ mclient -lmal Welcome to mclient, the MonetDB interactive terminal (unreleased) Type \q to quit, \? for a list of available commands mal>?fits.*() pattern fits.attach(fname:str):void address FITSattach; comment Open a FITS file and return catalog of the table HDUs pattern fits.export(tablename:str):void address FITSexportTable; comment Export a table to a FITS file command fits.fitstest(filename:str):int address FITStest; comment Returns the type of first extension in the FITS file filename pattern fits.load(tablename:str):void address FITSloadTable; comment Load a FITS table from an attached file pattern fits.listdirpattern(dirname:str,pattern:str):void address FITSdirpat; comment Attach all FITS file in the directory, giving a pattern pattern fits.listdir(dirname:str):void address FITSdir; comment Attach all FITS files in the directory mal> And if you're familiar with the MonetDB code base, you find the respective code in sql/backends/monet5/vaults/*fits* Best, Stefan ----- Original Message -----

Hi all,

Could you give a tutorial of Data vault with FITS files, i searched the moentdb.org and google, but didn't find the step-by-step tutorials.

Thanks! Meng _______________________________________________ users-list mailing list users-list@monetdb.org http://mail.monetdb.org/mailman/listinfo/users-list

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