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Outline

The initialization batch consists of tables populated with the metadata necessary for PSPS to make sense of the other batch types, like detections, diffs etc. For example, they include information relating to photometry, like zero points and extinction, as well as filter types, survey IDs etc. The table definitions can be seen here and the full metadata can be downloaded here.

Running

To create and publish an initialization batch, do the following from the IPP trunk:

cd ippToPsps/perl
./makeInit.pl

This will list all options. Essentials are the following:

* REQUIRED: need to provide an output path  -o <path>

To publish the batches to the datastore, the -p argument (datastore product) must be provided.

Example usage would be

./makeInit.pl -o . -p PSPS_test

This will create a new initialization batch file in the local dir and publish it to the PSPS_test datastore product.