[Babase] Re: More!

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Fri Dec 9 15:49:40 EST 2005


On 12/09/2005 12:34:53 PM, Catherine Markham (amarkham at Princeton.EDU)  
wrote:
> Hi Karl,
> 
> Sorry this has been so piece meal - I've been waiting for someone to
> stop by, so am just chipping away at it bit by bit while I wait.

It's not a problem as far as just me goes, but I wonder how we're
actually supposed to all have a dialog if we don't write text
to the list.  So far it's not been much of a problem as I go
through what people write when we have phone conferences.
But I would not want to forget to address anything.

> This
> attachment contains all the documentation on the views.  This is such
> a cool feature - I love it!!

Yes.  (The SELECT part of the views are totaly painless, but
it does require some work to setup exactly how I want the
INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE stuff to work as these need some
thought depending on the columns and the various
relationships involved.)  I notice that the new
phpPgAdmin (not installed) has comma-separated-values,
which is what Excel can output, based database loading.  So, I'm
hoping that much data inputting and maintenance can take place
directly through views for at least the interum period while
all the programs are not done.  (I believe I would like to write
programs so that there's changelogging with each upload automatically
but it's not absolutely necessary because if I write a changelog
pogram then the operator can upload data and then manuallly run
the changelog program each time.  We'll need a generic changelog
program anyway because some maintenance will be manual and we'll
want that logged.)  We will need a ranker program.

So, I'll need a view for actor-acteee interaction uploading
and probably several for the point samples, but of the areas
we've already gone over the question I have for everybody,
but mostly you and Leah, is what other views would be required
so that you can maintain the data?

Karl <kop at meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                  -- Robert A. Heinlein



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