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/**
 * @file
 *
 * Defines the JoinTable class which is the primary class
 * used in the nested loops join implementation.
 */

#ifndef DRIZZLED_TABLE_REFERENCE_H
#define DRIZZLED_TABLE_REFERENCE_H

#include <drizzled/base.h>
#include <drizzled/sql_bitmap.h>

namespace drizzled
{

class StoredKey;
class Item;

struct table_reference_st
{
  bool key_err;
  uint32_t key_parts; /**< num of key parts */
  uint32_t key_length; /**< length of key_buff */
  int32_t key; /**< key no (index) */
  unsigned char *key_buff; /**< value to look for with key */
  unsigned char *key_buff2; /**< key_buff+key_length */
  StoredKey **key_copy; /**< No idea what this does... */
  Item **items; /**< val()'s for each keypart */
  /**
    Array of pointers to trigger variables. Some/all of the pointers may be
    NULL.  The ref access can be used iff

      for each used key part i, (!cond_guards[i] || *cond_guards[i])

    This array is used by subquery code. The subquery code may inject
    triggered conditions, i.e. conditions that can be 'switched off'. A ref
    access created from such condition is not valid when at least one of the
    underlying conditions is switched off (see subquery code for more details)
  */
  bool **cond_guards;
  /**
    (null_rejecting & (1<<i)) means the condition is '=' and no matching
    rows will be produced if items[i] IS NULL (see add_not_null_conds())
  */
  key_part_map  null_rejecting;
  table_map	depend_map; /**< Table depends on these tables. */
  /** null byte position in the key_buf. Used for REF_OR_NULL optimization */
  unsigned char *null_ref_key;
  /**
    true <=> disable the "cache" as doing lookup with the same key value may
    produce different results (because of Index Condition Pushdown)
  */
  bool disable_cache;
};

} /* namespace drizzled */

#endif /* DRIZZLED_TABLE_REFERENCE_H */
