On 2012-04-10, at 8:37 PM, Chris Cormack wrote: > 2012/4/10 Mason James <[email protected]>: >> >> >> just curious, is it worth switching back to the plain old MARC format >> internally for Koha, for an extra speed increase? > > Heh, thats what this whole thread started with :) You should read back >> >> i cant remember what the advantage was in moving to marcxml? (other than >> marcxml being easier to read, for a human) >> > > When we had items in the marc, it got too big and was truncated, a > limitation of the iso2709 standard. Being truncated rendered it > unusable because it missed the 999 (at the end). MARCXML doesn't > suffer the size limit. > > However, now we don't have items stored in the MARC, we could switch > back, if it is indeed faster, we need to test with the missing embed > items function call added back in. > > Chris
aaah yep, the 99999 size-limit was the reason for the switch.... thanks for the reminder Chris
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