| From: | "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net> |
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| To: | Andrew Sullivan <sullivana(at)bpl(dot)on(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | user Postgresql ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: USMARC and postgresql? |
| Date: | 2000-05-09 13:26:09 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.10.10005090920500.17232-100000@chapelperilous.net |
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On Tue, 9 May 2000, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> BLOBs. It's a pain, though, because building the indices against the
> catalogue is difficult. I think, actually, that the PICK-based spproach is
> better, but PICK is going away. Anyway, you likely need to talk to someone
> about BLOBs. I can't help, sorry.
The MARC format is really intended to be used in a full-text search
environment, such as the old online systems like Dialog or Lexix-Nexis use
(although they don't use MARC specifically). They all predate SQL and
mapping one onto the other is not an easy task. It's easy to go from a
SQl database to one of the variable-length (or 80 column card image)
text-formats, but not the other way around unless you are into doing some
text-processing programming.
Brett W. McCoy
http://www.chapelperilous.net
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