Re: [GUSDEV] using checksums for loading seqs and features

[Aaron J. M. <am...@pc...>]

On Jun 12, 2005, at 10:28 PM, Steve Fischer wrote:

> Because we are treating a feature tree as a unit, all the features  
> that are in a tree will have the same digest.   They will each have  
> their own row in the DigestTable.

Why is this?  I would have expected only one row for the top-level  
parent feature.  What facility does the duplication provide?

-Aaron

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