On 2012-04-10, at 8:37 PM, Chris Cormack wrote:
2012/4/10 Mason James <mtj@kohaaloha.com>:
just curious, is it worth switching back to the plain old MARC format internally for Koha, for an extra speed increase?
Heh, thats what this whole thread started with :) You should read back
i cant remember what the advantage was in moving to marcxml? (other than marcxml being easier to read, for a human)
When we had items in the marc, it got too big and was truncated, a limitation of the iso2709 standard. Being truncated rendered it unusable because it missed the 999 (at the end). MARCXML doesn't suffer the size limit.
However, now we don't have items stored in the MARC, we could switch back, if it is indeed faster, we need to test with the missing embed items function call added back in.
Chris
aaah yep, the 99999 size-limit was the reason for the switch.... thanks for the reminder Chris