[ovs-discuss] OVSDB key, indexes

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 02:04:59PM +0000, Rutuja Umesh Madhure wrote:
> I had a question about key, indexes in ovsdb. Referring to
> RFC7047<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7047.txt>, the 'type'
> of a column can be a 'key'. What does that exactly mean.

OVSDB supports various kinds of types, including maps from keys to
values.  When a type isn't a map, OVSDB considers it to just contain
keys instead of key-value pairs.