[Babase] unclear sexskin errors

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Thu May 29 14:48:55 EDT 2008


On 05/29/2008 08:45:47 AM, kfenn wrote:

> I'm just reporting back on SEXSKINS.  I've tried uploads and am  
> getting errors for which I only have a date to work with (sxid is  
> meaningless if it doesn't upload).
> 
> ERROR: Sxid 146906: Cid <NULL>: 2003-09-12: There is no sexual cycle  
> (CYCLES) to which this row can be assigned

As I was writing the code I had a bad feeling about this.
(But then I got lucky and there were no complaints during
the conversion, probably because there were other ways to
find problems.)

> Sooo....I have a list of 15-30 females that are potential problems  
> for each date.  Thus far I've encountered at least 5 problem dates  
> and I've only gone up to Sept of 2003.  I was hoping there would only  
> be a handful like this, but if the numbers keeps growing it becomes  
> increasingly difficult to find a pattern for the errors with all the  
> extra noise.
> 
> Any ideas for identifying the offending female or improving the error  
> message?

The problem is that the code that's generating the error message
only as the sexskin row "at hand", and the sexskin row does not
store the sname or anything useful.  I can code a query to
get more information after the error is discovered so it can
generate a decent error message.

Not that much work because there's not that many sexskin errors.
(You could glance at the code to see.)

Does Jeanne want me to do this?


Karl <kop at meme.com>
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