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#ifndef _INLINEMINTERVAL_HH_
#define _INLINEMINTERVAL_HH_

class InlineMinterval;

template<class T> class DBRef;

#include "raslib/minterval.hh"

//@ManMemo: Module: {\bf relcatalogif}.

/*@Doc:
InlineMinterval is a subclass of r_Minterval which stores and
instantiates itself in char[].
This class is used by the index data structures to store their
domain data fast and efficiently.
*/

/**
  * \ingroup Relcatalogifs
  */
class InlineMinterval : public r_Minterval
	{
	public:
		InlineMinterval();
		
		InlineMinterval(r_Dimension dim);
	
		InlineMinterval(r_Dimension dim, r_Range* lowerbound, r_Range* upperbound, char* lowerfixed, char* upperfixed);
		/*@Doc:
		construct a InlineMinterval with dimension dim from the
		arrays lowerbound, upperbound, lowerfixed, upperfixed.
		*/

		InlineMinterval(const r_Minterval& old);

		InlineMinterval(const InlineMinterval& old);
		
		virtual ~InlineMinterval();

		//replaces only the r_Minterval part of the object
		virtual InlineMinterval& operator=(const InlineMinterval& old);

		//replaces only the r_Minterval part of the object
		virtual InlineMinterval& operator=(const r_Minterval& old);

		virtual void insertInDb(r_Range* lowerbound, r_Range* upperbound, char* lowerfixed, char* upperfixed) const;
		/*@Doc:
		stores the attributes of the InlineMinterval into the four
		supplied arrays.  the arrays must be large enough.
		*/
	};

#endif