[Babase] Questions about fixing ranker

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Tue Aug 14 15:26:50 EDT 2007


On 08/14/2007 12:06:34 PM, Lacey Maryott wrote:
> 
> 
> Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>> 

>> The babase_copy database does not hold what we think.  There's
>> no rows in BIOGRAPH for instance.  I'd say use babase_test.
>> 
>> The ranker program is not giving good error messages
>> when it encounters an unusual situtation.
>> 
>> If we don't know what's in babase_test then let's backup and
>> restore babase into babase_test.  (The babase schema.)
>> 
> You backed up test yesterday right? Do we still have that back up we  
> can keep in lieu of another?

I don't have a backup of test, I've a backup of babase_copy
(which is pretty useless.)  But is there anything in there
that we need to keep?  Not if we don't know what it is.

>> We should probably have a wiki page so we can keep track of
>> what version of data is in babase_test and babase_copy.

> Would this fit on the 'Status of Datasets' page?

That sounds sane.  (It's probably worth repeating that
they hold test data.)

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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