[Koha-zebra] Behind the Scenes Updating

[Mike Taylor]

> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:44:38 -0500
> From: Sebastian Hammer <quinn at indexdata.com>
> 
>> Right, I see that now, as Paul's set it up in CVS, we're using
>> general record IDs stored in the 090$c field in the MARC records.
>> 
>> So for _new_ cataloging, we're going to have to generate the 090$c
>> field for every MARC record we plan to import, then we'll 'update'
>> the Zebra index, and if we're using shadow registers, this process
>> will be fault-tolerant.
> 
> Yep.

Pedantry note: the operation that needs to be done to resync with the
shadow registers is called "commit", not "update".  "Update" is what
you do to add or change records, and "commit" is what you do to make
those changes permanent.

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