NatLabRockies / NatLabRockies/COMPASS

Avoid duplicates in the database

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Since Jun 28, 2025.

enhancement p-medium
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Description

The main concern here is on the trivial and clear cases of duplicates, such as running twice load in the same source. There are many 'levels' of duplication as well as many ways to recognize that. I'm interested here only on the trivial case of complete and exact duplication.

There is no good reason to load in the database twice the exact same data, and we should avoid that. The simplest approach would be by comparing the hash, but that would require a complete and precise hash, i.e. the hash must consider all the contents.

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