Helge Sverre: “Depends, if its stuff seeded from a file that i might occasi…”

When you have to load rarely-changing data into your database, how do you do it?

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Depends, if its stuff seeded from a file that i might occasionally change, either via a command that would be idempotent, or simply load it from a file with caching if its appropriate.

8:57 PM · Oct 16, 2026commit c7cb623

John Beales @jbeales2h

I'm currently working with geographic data, and the earth doesn't change much, but the roads & stuff people build on it do. Maybe I should over-engineer this and build a full pipeline for pulling data from an OpenStreetMap dump.