[Babase] MEMBERS/CENSUS/DEMOG conversion is running

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:24:34 -0500


On 2004.09.24 14:05 Stephanie Combes wrote:
> Hi Karl et al.,
> 
> Very exciting.  I've set it to run myself here at Duke.  So far we're 
> at about 24hrs and still going.  I think we might need some speed-ups.

Yes.  I'm going to have to speed it up before it's worthwhile.  It's 
been
about 2.5 days here and not close to done.

> 
>  Karl - were you planning on coming back here to Duke for a bit in 
> October?

The plan is Oct 11, although I want to try to get enough done beforehand
(don't tell Jeanne  ;-) that I wont' have to come.

BTW, Any word on RANKS.Grp needing to be a supergroup?

> 
> -s
> 
> --On Wednesday, September 22, 2004 11:20 PM -0500 "Karl O. Pinc" 
> <kop@meme.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've updated the conversion program to do MEMBERS/CENSUS/DEMOG
>> and am running it now.  I'm using the babase_test database.
>> Steph can run it for herself if she likes in the
>> babase_sandbox database as usual.
>> 
>> I believe I've finally got all the
>> bugs out of the interpolation program.   However, performance
>> is terrible with the 'old-style' census rows.
>> It works just as it does now, and in normal use
>> it does not matter as there are no new 'old-style'
>> census rows, but the conversion is slow.
>> This hot minute I'm going to move on and work toward
>> getting the rest of the tables converted as they should
>> go quickly.  The program may still be running the next
>> time I look in a day or so in which case I can speed up
>> the interpolation without much effort.
>> 
>> On another note, the REPSTATS/CYCSTATS updating is
>> terribly inefficent.  This will slow down the census
>> updating as entering census data updates Statdate
>> which updates REPSTATS/CYCSTATS.  I can make this
>> much faster too with not very much effort and will
>> probably need to do this before we go live.
>> 
>> Karl <kop@meme.com>
>> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>>                    -- Robert A. Heinlein
>> 
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Karl <kop@meme.com>
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