[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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