From: Ron J. <ron...@co...> - 2014-06-15 17:40:05
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On 06/15/2014 12:28 PM, Nick Hall wrote: [snip] > It was probably written for debugging. I can't find an equivalent import. > Only values are written, so you would have to look at the code of the > Gramps objects to understand the meaning of each value. The citation table > is also missing in the raw export. Save some code complexity by ripping it out? > I don't think so. We use a pickled format in the database. > > Each Gramps object has a serialize and unserialize method. A primary > object is serialized together with the secondary objects it contains. > It is this serialized version that is stored in the database. DB as "BLOB storage device? Interesting... > The Gramps XML is more human-readable and should be used for backups. I do. My curiosity was just piqued by the format, though. -- My word, man! Don't you know your quantum statistics? |