[Babase] Work plan hangups-ish
Susan Alberts
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:50:27 +0300
Thanks for the update karl. Keep us posted on what happens with the
hangups and if you need anything else from me/us.
Susan
>Hi,
>
>The conversion is presently taking 16 days, not 36 hours.
>I think I slipped a decimal point in my midnight calculations
>and should have arrived at about 360 hours. I'm not worried
>as I have various speedups and work-arounds in mind. In any case
>there's little point in working on performance until
>Hunter tunes the server a bit so I'm putting off work on this
>for the hot minute. I would like to get back to it soon,
>so maybe Steph can sit on Hunter about this.
>
>I'm also waiting on Steph for queries to use to compare old
>and new database content. I could go ahead and write
>equalivent postgresql (pg) queries but then Steph would
>have to translate varagities to foxpro and I think they'll
>be less effort overall if Steph goes first.
>
>In the meantime I'm going to work on using schemas to set up
>sandbox areas in each database where people can make their
>own tables and extend babase without disturbing babase itself.
>It's something that is best done before we run the
>conversion program for the very last time so may as well
>do it now. It's a smallish task so I can get back to speedups
>and comparisons without interrupting workflow.
>
>If I finish with that I'll start on translating programs
>from old to new. I've plenty to do.
>
>Karl <kop@meme.com>
>Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
> -- Robert A. Heinlein
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