[Koha-devel] (sort of) Refactoring rebuild_zebra

[Chris Cormack]

On 20 August 2010 05:00, Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm writing a replacement for zebraqueue-daemon.pl so
> that we can set the reindexing interval for authorities (and biblios)
> via systempreferences and we can set intervals in seconds (for our
> impatient librarians) wich cannot be acknowleged using cron jobs.
> I'll be posting the script soon, but I've been thinking of kind-of
> refactoring rebuild_zebra into a reusable library so that the daemon
> doesn't spawn a perl interpreter every (for example) 30 seconds.
>
> A question related to the topic is: why we don't trigger the update
> whenever a cataloguer click "save" for a biblio or auth record?
> Perhaps this refactoring serves for an implementation of this.
>
Because it's slow. Thats why it is done as a seperate process, the
index needs to be updated every time an item is issued or returned as
well as when it is changed by a cataloguer.
It would slow circulation down way too much.

Chris