[daip] DBCON on many files

[Walter Brisken]

Hi Eric,

I've added DBAPP to my pipeline and it seems to be working well.  Much 
faster and less kludgy than multiple DBCON steps.

Thanks for the effort here!

-Walter

On Wed, 11 Apr 2018, Eric Greisen wrote:

> On 04/10/2018 08:14 AM, Walter Brisken wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Eric,
>>
>>  I tried the new DBAPP.  I used it to append 3 databases to a fourth.
>>  Execution went as expected, with three warnings about UT1-UTC (again, as
>>  epected).
>>
>>  One issue found with the updated DBAPP: NX table after the operation is
>>  not correct.  Below is the original post-DBAPP LISTR output, and then one
>>  after deleting the NX table and rerunning INDXR.  My guess is this would
>>  be a simple fix, or you could simply delete the NX table and request the
>>  user to rerun INDXR.
>
> With the test data pair that you provided I found 3 issues:
>
> 1. The input NX table times have to be adjusted by any day offset.
>
> 2. The start vis record number had to changed from 0 to the end of the 
> initial output file.
>
> 3. The second data set you provided had a FITS read error (premature EOF) 
> which led ther to be 1000's of pure zero records.  They confused the NX table 
> routines badly.
>
> After I UVCOPed the last to get rid of the 0's and fixed points 1 and 2 the 
> NX table now seems okay and to reflect the input table (which has very long 
> scans).
>
> Fixed tomorrow after MNJ prep.
>
> Eric
>
>

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