[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** ***SPAM*** script to break up big marc load to avoid cataloging conflict

[Dan Scott]

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 13:23 -0300, Melissa Belvadi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We're faced with wanting to reload a set of about 55,000 ebook records
> on a probably quarterly basis. I've got the whole source thing figured
> out to handle the problems of adding the new/removing the old records,
> but am trying to avoid the ritual of having to ask cataloging and
> reserves to stop adding bib records for multi-hour stretches while this
> loads (because of the bib record id conflict problem), and we can't run
> it overnight because of conflicts with other EG things that run
> overnight.

Can you back up a step or two and explain why you're reloading these
records on a quarterly basis?

My initial thought is that you should just replace the
biblio.record_entry.marc field in each existing record, then reingest
them - that way you wouldn't be creating new bib record IDs and wouldn't
have to stop cataloguing and reserves.