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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