The full-blown lidar database is gigantic and unwieldy, and requires installing and setting up Postgres, TimescaleDB, and other extensions.
Instead we can store intermediate summary statistics by day (same frequency as the Mesonet text files). That would require vastly less disk space -- a huge win because disk space is the #1 computing constraint for this project -- and it also means we can use SQLite to keep the package simpler.
The full-blown lidar database is gigantic and unwieldy, and requires installing and setting up Postgres, TimescaleDB, and other extensions.
Instead we can store intermediate summary statistics by day (same frequency as the Mesonet text files). That would require vastly less disk space -- a huge win because disk space is the #1 computing constraint for this project -- and it also means we can use SQLite to keep the package simpler.