Re: [Gnumed-devel] demo database

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 03:16:54AM +0000, Vaibhav Banait wrote:

> I am planning to do schema and data backup from old and
> new system today and restoring as suggested by dr karsten. I
> would let the result be known. I appreciate all the help I
> received from you.

No problem. As long as you keep supplying information we can
attempt to give suggestions.

> The cleanest solution for demo database , in my opinion ,
> is to provide empty database at boot strap with one user,
> and to provide demo database as a script to be installed for
> those who need it. This can be asked explicitly, something
> like do you want to put shortcut on desktop ?

Sure, in hindsight, this is probably the better option.

Several factors contributed to the current situation:

- initially I hadn't thought enough about possible long-term consequences

- the demo data actually serves a purpose - it force(s|d) me
  to write working data conversion scripts for database
  upgrades (we haven't lost a single bit due to upgrading
  from v2 to v19 !)

- we've put in a solution to that part of the problem for
  which we needed a solution anyway (removing a person from
  the database)

- maintaining a demo database outside the usual
  bootstrapping puts the burden of maintaining that with
  each release (as opposed to being converted on upgrade
  just like any old data)

Nowever, around v10 or so I stopped adding relevant amounts
of demo data due to the above factors.

Karsten
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