reduced version of checkref

"Markus Hoenicka" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.refdb.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dominik Reusser writes:
 > Hi there,
 > I have refdbd running on a rather old debian box with quite a large database 
 > (~2400 records). If I try to run checkref with this setup, I end up with 
 > timeouts and no results. So I am still required to check references manually.

This is just a matter of increasing your timeout settings both on the
server and client side. The default timeouts turned out to be too
short for the kind of database processing required for checkref. If
you're running refdbc and refdbd on the same computer, you can set
both timeouts to zero to avoid this problem altogether (there should
be no networking problems on the loopback device, after all).

 > 
 > Would it be possible to turn off certain checks (such as keywords, user 
 > notes,..) and just compare for example author, year, journal, issue, pages 
 > and title?
 > 

I've been pondering this too. I get a serious number of possible
keyword duplicates when using Pubmed data, which is well endowed with
keywords of all sorts. Maybe we should use the -S switch to select the
fields to check, instead of to select the additional fields for the
xhtml output.

 > Also, I do have some duplicates in my database. Is there an efficient way to 
 > get a list of possible duplicates through refdbc/refdba? Of course I could 
 > run SQL-queries to get this information. But maybe there is a more efficient 
 > way?
 > 

Currently not. You might of course checkref a ris(x) dump of your
entire database and filter the (humongous) report e.g. for exact title
matches.

regards,
Markus

-- 
Markus Hoenicka
[email protected]
(Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka")
http://www.mhoenicka.de


-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.