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 <ryan.higgins@liblime.com> 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 <mdhafen@tech.washk12.org> 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
>
>
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