[Koha] some thoughts about cataloguing and acquisition (important)

[Marco Gaiarin]

Mandi! Chris Cormack
  In chel di` si favelave...

> But there are many other considerations, the main one being speed of
> searching. Data will undoubtedly need to be duplicated in order to achieve
> fast search results. The trick is making sure the routines that handle the
> data keep it all in sync.
> Disk is cheap .. users patience with slow searches isnt :-)

Please, no. Referential integrity is the only warrenty of data ever
correct and coherent.
A correct schema, well written, are not slower as a full set of dirty
tricks.

Please, build koha around a well written data schema, ad the
application will be easer tu build and to manage.


PS: for the MARC dispute... i think that koha *MUST* speak MARC, but
this dont'mean that koha have to usa marc as a internal storage
format...

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