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Temporary Indexes
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Temporary indexes are produced by using any scoping clause other than
the FOR condition in the index creation process. These indexes are not
automatically maintainable because the condition is not stored for later
use. These indexes can be made maintainable if the condition can be
expressed as a FOR condition and is added using the FOR clause. But the
main use of temporary indexes is for fast creation of indexes for read-
only browses or reports that operate on a subset of the database.
Since older applications would not operate properly with indexes that do
not contain all the keys in a given database, they must be prevented
from using them. This is accomplished by modifying the index signature
to prevent pre-CA-Clipper 5.2 applications from being able to open the
index.
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