[Dspace-general] Is it OK to add data fields at the database level?

[Dorothea Salo]

> I have been asked by our staff if there are objections to undertaking
> bulk changes in the dspace database using Postgres commands, i.e
> directly modifiying particular tables to insert/update data. Their
> feeling is that doing records one at time is not what computer systems
> are about.

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> Has anyone tried to do this?

Oh, certainly. With more frequency than I like to admit. :) It seems
to me your admins have done the necessary amount of testing, and all
should go just fine.

Directly changing the database is the only halfway-efficient way to do
authority control on a long list of author names or subjects.

Dorothea

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