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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#204A87'> </span>I have just pushed a somewhat radical change to databaseReset.py and I hope no one gets too upset. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It does the requested import to a scratch in-memory sqlite database (5.6 mins for the entire import) and only then does it do the import you requested.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Since most of the runs of databaseReset are by people debugging code or finding errors in input data this should save time overall quite a bit as the errors are found during the scratch in-memory phase.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>The reason for doing this is because I am looking forward to a long period of fixing python 2to3 errors which will undoubtedly mean running all the import code hundreds of times.<br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#204A87'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#204A87'> </span></b>..and if I wrote the planned extension of skipping the full python file import to the db and squirting the SQL generated by the in-memory phase into the db instead – in a single transaction - the entire operation would be much quicker under all circumstances.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Philip<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PS Working on the import and the parsers is my way of learning how the db is constructed out of the input data files. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think I have determined that the “surveyimgs” option : <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>parsers.surveys.parseSurveys(logfile=settings.LOGFILE) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>does nothing functional at all and that this code is not in active use but kept around in case any bits might be useful. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The survey scan image files actually used in troggle are imported by parsers.surveys.LoadListScans().<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>