backlinks--taking cowdb to the next level

In the current release of cowdb, we take the "What me worry?" approach to symbolic links--they are the responsibilit of the application programmer to maintain. And this can be a significant source of complexity--especially when manual maintenance is allowed, and multi-level deep copies are supported. So we need to automate things a bit more. Especially when we start supporting pathname references.

A large table of backlinks maintained at the top-level branch will provide the necessary information to automate the maintenance of symbolic links. And as any Wiki user knows, backlinks are useful to have around.

But note now the divergence from a more traditional OODBMS. CowDb already has built-in support for large hashes and large tables. And yes, we are taking a small step here towards a Rolonic database. But only a very small step.