Great!  Thanks.  Maybe we can help out with some of the docs. :)

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Aaron,
>
> I like the tool Marcel built in the spring.  It's called reportupdater and
> it's been pretty stable and useful but it's not documented because we
> haven't publicized it yet.  What it does is allow you to configure
> templates for SQL or shell scripts that take parameters and generate
> separated value files as output.  You can specify the time granularity that
> you want results for and it will re-run jobs for time periods that don't
> exist in the output (because of failures, etc.).  It also does other useful
> things like reports errors like a champ and ensures only one instance is
> running at any given time.  You can even change your scripts to output new
> columns or re-arrange the column order and it will morph the output files
> to match the new header (you just can't remove columns - because that's
> crazy!).
>
> If you wanna talk more about it I'd like to give you the details privately
> because I'd want to start documenting this tool properly as I do.
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I know there was some work in the past on systems to support keeping
>> database reports up to date.  I'm looking into this type of work with Jeph
>> Paul now and I realized I don't have any good pointers to this past work.
>> Right now, we're looking at running database reports based on cron jobs and
>> checking the recentchanges table to make sure that replication isn't too
>> lagged.  Is there a better way?
>>
>> FWIW, I expect these queries to run daily and have a runtime of up to an
>> hour.
>>
>> -Aaron
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