tickets/PREOPS-4775: Document the prototype sim archive

[ehneilsen]

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[rhiannonlynne]

Looks fine. I don't understand why you're using
SchemaConverter.opsim2obs
followed immediately by
SchemaConverter.obs2opsim
on the same data though.
(wouldn't it work with a pd.read_sql command? or are you trying to make sure we're agnostic to datatype of the opsim database, and if so, should we add a command in rubin_scheduler to read an opsim database from disk? )

[rhiannonlynne]

See comment in conversation though.

[ehneilsen]

... wouldn't it work with a pd.read_sql command? or are you trying to make sure we're agnostic to datatype of the opsim database, and if so, should we add a command in rubin_scheduler to read an opsim database from disk?

In part I was trying to make it db format agnostic, and in part to make it robust to what SchemaConverter considers the "opsim" format: the way I did it, either could change, and if SchemaConverter were appropriately updated, then the change would propagate here.

Adding a command in rubin_scheduler from disk would, indeed, simplify this code.