Hello,

Yes I should, but if the work had been already done, I did not see any reason to do it again :) But thanks for the last sentence. That’s what I have always done, but I’m trying a new python api that just set the whole value, so I have to rewrite some bits.

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Le 20 déc. 2023 à 17:29, Howard Chu hyc@symas.com a écrit :

Frédéric Goudal wrote:

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Hello,

I have to update records with mutlivalued attributes, and I wonder what is the best (fastest, or lighter for the server) to do :

• either just set the value with the new list

• or calculate which values to add and which to delete and than do the add and remove operations.

And to be a bit more precise, if we have a big number of values is one of the two way best ?

You should profile it yourself and see.

Generally, you should only change what needs to be changed, so setting the entire value to a new list is the worst choice.

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