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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, postgresql
Domain
databases, documentation

Research direction

Start at the changesetParser command and inspect how its options are parsed, then review changesets/post_initial.sql and the CSV-loading steps. Done means the invocation for initial=true is documented clearly; the issue also notes that the initial-load sequence should eventually be scripted.

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Description

Initial load of changesets
When starting out with an empty database, there is an optimized way to load the initial backlog of changesets. Create an empty folder called csv in the project root and pass the option: initial=true changesetParser. After this command is run, run psql <db_name> < changesets/post_initial.sql to load the CSVs into the database. FIXME: this should be scripted

Could you tell me how would the command look like for passing the initial=true.
I can't seem to figure out where would I pass that option.
Thanks

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