Re: [Gnumed-devel] Data packs

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 03:12:54PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> > There's no technical difference between a data pack you
> > already installed (you can install it again and GNUmed won't
> > care) and one you did not yet install.
> 
> OK, this is maybe getting clearer.
> 
> If you install again, then
> 
> - if the content are the same, did you add no records, or
> did you delete all the old ones and replaced them with
> entirely new ones which contain the same data as did the
> original?

If the content are the same:

        - the end result will be identical whether done nothing
          or old deleted and newly inserted

        - technically it may be either or and/or a combination
          of both, depending on whether the data is in use

> - what if the data pack (at the time of re-instalaltion)
> contains data that is different from what was originally
> installed?

That's up to the data pack. Typically one would expect new
records to become added, updated ones to be updated,
deprecated ones to become deleted if possible.

Karsten
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