wacs.cfg: Database Section

Table 6.1. wacs.cfg: Tables

VariableDescriptionTypical Value
models

name of the models tables. This is indirected to allow for databases to be owned by a different user than the wacs system runs as or for porting considerations to other database platforms. In Oracle you might call it dbowner.models rather than the normal simple models.

models
idmap

name of the idmapping table - this is the one that links a local model to a model name/number for a specific site.

idmap
assoc

name of the associations table, ie the one that links a model to a given set. A single set can have many associations, if it has a lot of known models in it.

assoc
sets

name of the sets table - the main database table of the WACS system. Very little will work if the wacs programs can't find this one!

sets
download

name of the download table. This is used to identify the source information for a set. Depending on status can either be a task list, or a check list of what we already have.

download
photographer

name of the photographer table. Where the list of known photographers is.

photographer
tag

name of the tag table. This is the search results and bookmarking mechanism's workspace.

tag
vendor

name of the vendor table. This contains information on various source web sites, how to parse them and download from them and how to link to them.

vendor
conn

name of the connections table. This is the new mechanism for arbitary connections between sets, models and photographers - the key difference between tags and connections, is that the WACS applications will flag up when a set is a member of a connection.

conn
keyword

name of the keywords table. This is used for guessing attributes and locations from key words found in the description

keyword