[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Import issues

[Dan Scott]

Sorry Dibyendra, those options should have been --tcnfield and --tcnsubfield

Try those, they should work in 1.4.

Dan

2009/8/13 Dibyendra Hyoju <dibyendra at gmail.com>:
> Hello Dan,
>
> Thank you very much for your response.
>
> I used the options: 'tcn_field' and 'tcn_subfield', but they are not
> recognized by the marc2bre.pl. I executed the marc2bre.pl in following
>  way and the output is as follows:
>
> dibyendra-laptop:/home/opensrf/Evergreen-ILS-1.4.0.4/Open-ILS/src/extras/import#
> perl marc2bre.pl --db_user postgres --db_host localhost --db_pw
> evergreen --db_name evergreen --encoding UTF8 --idfield 852
> --idsubfield x --tcn_field 852 --tcn_subfield x 8500.mrc > 8500.bre
> Unknown option: tcn_field
> Unknown option: tcn_subfield
>
> I guess, these options: 'tcn_field' and 'tcn_subfield' are not
> implemented on EG 1.4 yet. Is that so? I couldn't find EG 1.6 on the
> download page. We're planning to migrate our 10,000 validated MARC
> records into Evergreen.
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Dibyendra Hyoju
> Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya
> Patan Dhoka, Lalipur
> Nepal
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2009/8/8 Dibyendra Hyoju <dibyendra at gmail.com>:
>> > Hello all,
>> > I imported the sample records again on the another machine having Evergreen
>> > 1.4, and after importing that record, I couldn't import any records from
>> > other MARC files. I have attached the record '8500.mrc' and '8400.mrc'
>> > herewith. I first executed the SQL generated from 8500.mrc' successfully.
>> > Then, I couldn't execute the SQL generated from '8400.mrc'. The error is
>> > same as before like 'ERROR:  duplicate key violates unique constraint
>> > "biblio_record_unique_tcn"'. I only used the option "--encoding UTF8" this
>> > time. I tried few other records, but I got the same error. Few of the tested
>> > records are attached herewith if somebody wants to volunteer the test. If
>> > anyone has faced this problem before and have found the solution, please
>> > help. Any help will be highly appreciated.
>>
>> Sorry for the delayed reply, I'm on leave at the moment and not
>> connected very often.
>>
>> marc2bre.pl doesn't really deal with automatically generated TCNs all
>> that well, so you're best off explicitly identifying a source for the
>> TCN. To avoid getting duplicate TCN values and record ID values if all
>> of your records follow the same pattern with the 852 $x field /
>> subfield accession number identifier, you should also use the
>> --tcn_field / --tcn_subfield options for marc2bre.pl:
>>
>> perl marc2bre.pl --db_user postgres --db_host localhost --db_pw
>> evergreen --db_name evergreen --encoding UTF8 --idfield 852
>> --idsubfield x --tcn_field 852 --tcn_subfield x 8400.mrc > 8400.bre
>>
>> I tried importing both your 8000.mrc and 8400.mrc files with the and
>> these options worked fine for me with no duplicate value warnings.
>> This is with Evergreen rel_1_6_0 on Ubuntu 8.04, but marc2bre.pl (the
>> most critical script for parsing out TCN and record number) shows no
>> significant differences between 1.4 and rel_1_6_0.
>>
>> --
>> Dan Scott
>> Laurentian University
>



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Dan Scott
Laurentian University