[katello-devel] RFC: Strategy for Importing Data from Spacewalk

[Bryan Kearney]

On 10/01/2012 02:01 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> On 09/28/2012 09:43 PM, Mike McCune wrote:
>> that aside, +1 to a textual based format.
>
> I'm not sure about this. Spacewalk DB can be really big. Text export can
> inflate it several times.
>

How much of the size is the package DB?

> I would much rather operate directly on PostgreSQL db - or export of
> PostgreSQL db.
>
> This will solve all the encoding stuff, will save us disk space, and it
> will be faster.
>

But, we loose the generic tools to import. I would think for any bulk 
setup, or migration form other toolings this would be nice.

-- bk