Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of ippToPsps_ScratchDatabase

Timestamp:

Apr 4, 2012, 2:07:10 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

rhenders

Comment:

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ippToPsps_ScratchDatabase

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 Instances of {{{loader.py}}} will cycle through all of the above until a 'free' scratch database is found. It is obviously important that two loaders do not use the same scratch database at the same time.
 
-All code dealing directly with the scratch database is in the ScarcthDb class, [browser:trunk/ippToPsps/jython/scratchdb.py here].
+All code dealing directly with the scratch database is in the '''!ScratchDb''' class, [browser:trunk/ippToPsps/jython/scratchdb.py here].
 
-== DVO tables==
+== DVO tables ==
 
-Becasue scratch databases are used to import data from DVO databases, there are a number of DVO tables. These are:
+Because scratch databases are used to import data from DVO databases, there are a number of DVO tables. These are:
 
+ * {{{dvoDetection}}}
+ * {{{dvoDetectionFull}}}
+ * {{{dvoDone}}}
+ * {{{dvoImages}}}
+ * {{{dvoPhotcodes}}}
+ * {{{dvoSkyTable}}}
+ 
+=== {{{dvoDetection}}}/{{{dvoDetecionFull}}} ===
 
- * dvoDetection
- * dvoDetectionFull
- * dvoDone
- * dvoImages
- * dvoPhotcodes
- * dvoSkyTable
- 
+This table is used to store all IDs that we take from DVO, eg objID ippObjId etc. {{{dvoDetecion}}} is used when we are using the standard C-interface to access DVO (details [wiki:ippToPsps#AccessingDVO here]), whereas {{{dvoDetectionFull}}} is used when pre-ingesting large amounts of data from DVO.
 
+=== {{{dvoImages}}}/{{{dvoPhotcodes}}}/{{{dvoSkyTable}}} ===
+
+These tables represent the DVO FITS files Images.dat, Photcodes.dat and SkyTable.dat respectively.
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