---
title: "TouchedBuckets"
description: "for one table of gold, the entity buckets an acceptance touched and the snapshot it made; a reader is stale when its read set meets them"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/touchedbuckets
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# TouchedBuckets

for one table of gold, the entity buckets an acceptance touched and the snapshot it made; a reader is stale when its read set meets them

[figure: TouchedBuckets is a value at none scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | value |
| scope | none |
| key | none |
| store | none |
| family | record |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `table` | `text` | yes |  |
| `buckets` | `[count]` | yes | bounded by the bucket parameter |
| `snapshot` | `count` | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns TouchedBuckets directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.