Re: KCIDB: Support non-binary test outputs

On Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 09:05:20PM +0300, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> On 8/6/24 10:20 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > TBH as a submitter getting specific stuff back immediately (or at least
> > the option for it) is really helpful.

> Do you mean that you would like to know if you submitted something wrong
> immediately?

> Could you elaborate a bit here?

The whole workflow where you push data in and then check to see if it
appeared in the dashboard can be a bit obscure if you're trying to get
things right.

> > Putting the exponent in as a number does seem like it'd be much more
> > helpful for machine processing.

> It's helpful for normalizing to a single exponent, so data can be compared,
> but that's not something that a database can do fast. So, not helpful in the
> end.

It might be helpful on the read side though (ie, doing it as part of
rendering rather than in the database itself)?  Not so good for queries
but useful for UIs.

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