[Koha-devel] Bug 2453

[Chris Cormack]

On 22 April 2011 09:44, Paul <paul.a at aandc.org> wrote:
> I've just been reading Bug 2453 - (very) large biblio/item handling; it
> appears to have received no comments since 2010-05-21. If I understand the
> situation correctly (from Paul Poulain's comments) if a biblio/items record
> exceeds 100Kb then zebra may fail. He suggests:
>
> [snip] 2 possibilities :
> - fix Koha to limit the size of a biblio/items (check that we don't ge more
> than 100kB)
> - fix the export during rebuild_zebra.
> I think the 1st solution is the best.
>
> I am currently defining our serials cataloguing policy - choices: one biblio
> for perhaps 1,200 items; one biblio per item (probably unmanageable in
> OPAC); or one biblio per year|volume. Currently the third choice is
> preferred, one (perhaps repetitive) biblio with up to 12 items, occasionally
> 52 (we do not handle dailies.)
>
> However, even at twelve items per biblio we will often go beyond 100Kb; we
> are a research library where abstracts, indexes and keywords are, by
> definition, fairly voluminous and are the "bread and butter" of our users.
> Should this bug prompt me to perhaps rethink the policy?  Has 3.4 changed
> this situation?  Is there anything else in the pipeline that I should be
> aware of?
>
If you run rebuild_zebra.pl with the -x switch (just for biblio -x
doesnt work with authorities) this limitation does not exist.

I suggest running 2 rebuild_zebra.pl calls one for biblios
rebuild_zebra.pl -x -b -z
and one for authorities
rebuild_zebra.pl -a -z

Chris