Given the rarity of dumping MARC data, and the preference for that being the authoritative data, I see no reason to retain the non-XML version. Dumps would take a lot more clock-time to reassemble the MARC machine-code lines, but such operations on more than a handful of records would be (1) rare and (2) on the command-line, where starting off a long job does not cause the appearance of "failure". Dumps of marcxml would be just as fast, of course.
--Joe On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Ryan Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Yes, the marc column was excluded intentionally, since marcxml is > authoritative. > I don't really like keeping two copies in there, but if it's useful, we can > keep it. > As far as I know, Koha uses marcxml exclusively internally now, and the > only > reason to keep marc would be for faster dumps (though I'd rather dump the > authoritative version of the data) > > What do others think ? > > Ryan > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Michael Hafen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> A quick look over your table on the wiki. One thing I notice is the >> lack of the marc column. Is this intentional? >> >> I don't know if duplicating the marc in two columns is wanted, but I >> don't like it much. The database, and probably some sql query results, >> would be much smaller with just one copy on the marc. >> >> While we are talking about merging and cleaning in the database can we >> talk about this also? >> >> Thanks. >> >> On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 12:58 -0500, Ryan Higgins wrote: >> > >> > Late entry, I know, but I would like to get rid of the clunky extra >> > table, >> > and merge the columns that we need from biblioitems into a new biblio >> > table. I've listed the columns to keep on the wiki; please review and >> > add >> > any that are missing. >> > >> > >> http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:rfcs3.2:rfc32_biblio_table >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Ryan Higgins >> > >> > LibLime * Open-Source Solutions for Libraries >> > Featuring KohaZOOM ILS >> > 888-564-2457 x704 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Koha-devel mailing list >> > Koha-devel@lists.koha.org >> > http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >> -- >> Michael Hafen >> Systems Analyst and Programmer >> Washington County School District >> Utah, USA >> >> for Koha checkout >> http://koha-dev.washk12.org >> or >> git://koha-dev.washk12.org/koha >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Koha-devel mailing list >> Koha-devel@lists.koha.org >> http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel >> > > > > -- > Ryan Higgins > > LibLime * Open-Source Solutions for Libraries > Featuring KohaZOOM ILS > 888-564-2457 x704 > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha.org > http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > >
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