[db-wg] Weirdness in DB files

for my use case it's mainly a convenient object delimiter.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 14:15 Mahesh Aggarwal <maggarwal at ripe.net> wrote:

> Hi Cynthia,
>
> Thanks for you email.
>
> We have investigated, of 1.7M lines in the aut-num split file, the last
> tag appears after 1.3M lines. This is because not all aut-num objects
> contain tags.
> I confirm that split files are well formed and no tags are missing.
>
> There are currently 22997 out of 36481 autumn objects in split file for
> which tag information is available.
> Also tagging information is available for roughly 63% of ‘ASSIGNED' autumn
> objects.
>
> We released the tag beta feature  in 2013 but stopped automatically
> updating the tags some time later.
> So all the tags that are present in split files are automatically
> generated during that time period and objects created/updated after that
> have the tags information missing in split files.
>
> We need to ask the community whether we resume the tagging of objects or
> remove the functionality all together.
>
> Is tagging information is useful for you? We can put forward a case to the
> community for resuming this functionality.
>
> Regards,
> Mahesh
> RIPE NCC
>
> On 17 Dec 2020, at 09:27, Edward Shryane via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Cynthia,
>
> The DB team will investigate further and let you know.
>
> Regards
> Ed Shryane
> RIPE NCC
>
>
> On 17 Dec 2020, at 03:49, Cynthia Revström via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net>
> wrote:
>
> Hi DB-WG,
>
> I just noticed that the (at the time of writing, serial 49363913) latest
> aut-num split db file (possibly elsewhere too) sort of just seems to break
> at some point.
>
> The lines like below simply stop appearing:
>
> % Tags relating to 'AS3333'
> % RIPE-REGISTRY-RESOURCE
>
> Here's a section where you can see it happening:
> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bitcynth/d81688c6b7587e0179d55b8324535ff4/raw/57fcf2829967c0a9c1039180b2fd3e2a2cbb7e09/ripedb.txt
>
> Any clue why this is occurring? or is it just a bug?
>
> - Cynthia
>
>
>
>
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