Is there a way to disable the "make_dbOutput" function?

[CaitlinA]

@dschlaep

I am interested in disabling the make_dbOutput function when sim_aggregate is FALSE

If I am understanding sim_aggregate correctly, then when sim_aggregate (as well as concat_dbOut) is set to FALSE in the SFSW2_project_code.R there is no reason to make an output DB. This could be a huge time saver.

What do you think?

[dschlaep]

I agree that this would be a good enhancement. However, the existing code was built around the assumption that dbOutput was always requested.

There are several crucial parts of the wrapper that rely on dbOutput. For instance,

• making sure that dbWork is up-to-date calls recreate_dbWork which uses dbOutput
• the main simulation function do_OneSite uses information from dbOutput in several cases, e.g., to locate weather data

As a work-around until someone implements this enhancement: use quickprepare_dbOutput_dbWork to locally create dbOutput once, and then copy it in the correct/expected places so that each call to the wrapper (e.g., on an expensive machine) does not need to create it's own copy.

[CaitlinA]

I think that is a good solution for now. Thanks.

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 2:40 PM Daniel R Schlaepfer notifications@github.com wrote:

I agree that this would be a good enhancement. However, the existing code was built around the assumption that dbOutput was always requested.

There are several crucial parts of the wrapper that rely on dbOutput. For instance,

• making sure that dbWork is up-to-date calls recreate_dbWork which uses dbOutput
• the main simulation function do_OneSite uses information from dbOutput in several cases, e.g., to locate weather data

As a work-around until someone implements this enhancement: use quickprepare_dbOutput_dbWork to locally create dbOutput once, and then copy it in the correct/expected places so that each call to the wrapper (e.g., on an expensive machine) does not need to create it's own copy.

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