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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/8/26 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>

> 2009/8/26 Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Lars I think you are right.  I think the household/person was the closest
> I
> > think we got to considering deriving something else from source other
> than
> > organisation unit.
> >
> > I'd put it on notice - if you don't get any suggested use cases before
> the
> > weekend (or some other arbitrary point in time) then chop it.  I don't
> > imagine it will have an enormous performance impact,
>
> Thanks for the comments.
>
> What made me reiterate this issue now was trying to import Jason's
> Zambia database with 17 000 orgunits. We normally use multiple insert
> sql statements to insert large amounts of data. Now for orgunits we
> must first insert a record in the source table, retrieve the generated
> id, then add an entry to the organisationunit table, which is way
> slower than simply doing multiple inserts...
>

Ola's argument is good - agile principles say very clearly that you should
not try and prepare for all kinds of future eventualities. Chuck it out
without hesitation.

Knut


>
> > but getting leaner is good.
> >
>
> Agree
>






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Knut Staring