Philip Mateescu

I have some concerns as to how having the indexes and keys present in the database before the import affects the speed of the import. In most databases it tends...

Thank you for the report. Two questions: 1. What operating system and 2. Does it happen with the most recent release file (202009)?

Not opposed to having alternate separators, but I want to correct this part: > The comma delimiter is often used in names, notes, titles, etc. This leads to bad structured...

Could you try with the October file and see if you have the same issues, please? If it is not too much, could you also test the October files with...

Superb analysis, thank you. So what do you think we should do?

@pfouque @ijabz - would you mind testing the `get_dumps_xplatform` branch? I'm looking for feedback on python 2 and 3 on MacOS and Linux.

Thanks @pfouque - I really appreciate it. As far `get_latest_dumps.sh`, as I mentioned in my comment to your code review (thanks for it, btw!) > In the interest of keeping...

Sadly no. The Discogs project doesn't give deltas to be able to easily compute updates.

I like the id idea, even if it introduces a higher complexity. Alternatively, I guess we could compute a checksum for every top-level xml record and re-process those that have...

When the records get removed or merged are they actually removed from the dump or just their status gets marked somehow?