"'Cameron D' via weewx-development" <[email protected]>
writes:

> My assumption would be that any derivable value that you want to plot 
> should be a column in the database.  Even if you could speed it up, the 
> calculation it would need to be by a factor approaching 100 to be a useful 
> choice.
> I think that using derived parameters for only a "current" display should 
> be OK, but as soon as you want to plot it or include it in stats then each 
> report has to process the year's worth.

While I more or less see your point, have you benchmarked the cost of
extra database columns vs computing on the fly?  In most computers these
days I would expect CPU is much faster than storage.

Stats though there is a stronger argument for storing it.
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