El Miércoles, 11 de Febrero de 2009, Brett Henderson escribió: > > I'm importing brand new data, so populating the history tables is no big > > deal. > > Perhaps I've misunderstood you but populating the history tables is very > important.
I'm afraid we have a little misunderstanding here :-)
For *new* nodes/ways/relations, the only thing an importer has to do is insert
one record in the {node|way|relation} table, and the *same* record in the
current_{node|way|relation} table. And ensure that the version number is "1"
in both records.
Inserting two entries per object and setting the version (AKA "populating the
history tables") is, as you can see, no big deal. It got coded in a jiffy.
(I fail to see why we have to duplicate data here, anyway - I don't know
whether it would be performance-wise to just store the historic information,
and make the API fetch only the last version; or do as now, but not keeping
the last version in the historic tables)
Cheers,
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