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Partitioned Files and FILESETs are composed of a group of individual files. Some c-tree operations can be performed on the individual files in certain situations.
Partitioned Files
Partitioned Files allow data with a defined range of values for the partition key to be rapidly purged or archived (instead of having to delete record-by-record each record within this range). This administration is done through the FairCom DB PTADMIN API function or the fc_ptadmin_num() SQL stored procedure.
Individual member files can be purged and archived using these functions.
The member files of a Partitioned File cannot be opened by accessing them directly.
FILESETs
FILESETs are composed of individual files, which are standard c-tree files. As such, the member files can be accessed individually, and standard c-tree operations can be performed on them, when they are not part of a FILESET.
It is important that the individual files are not changed while they are being used as members of a FILESET.
