[Babase] VIV demog notes or RANK error

kfenn kfenn at princeton.edu
Wed Sep 10 16:13:32 EDT 2008


Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 09/10/2008 09:14:42 AM, kfenn wrote:
>
>> I was trying to upload some demog notes for Viola's group into 
>> demog_census.  VIV is censused (present) on two days in Viola's group 
>> (check babase_test if you want) and I needed to add a note that she 
>> was hanging around with a subgroup.  I get the following message 
>> regarding both demog notes I am trying to upload:
>>
>> ERROR: Cenid 1978378: VIV: Individual ranked in RANKS but no longer 
>> in supergroup on Rnkdate
>>
OK, and first, thanks for all the sleuthing and fixes and explanations.  
My apologies for making it more time-consuming than necessary...I did 
refer to the census data in babase_test (above) to indicate which db I 
was working in, although I could have been more clear about the fact 
that I was exclusively working there.  FWIW: I always first test every 
change/upload in babase_test so usually when I have a gripe about babase 
it starts off with "this worked fine in babase_test and now it won't 
work in babase".

>
> So, there's 2 questions here:
>
> What to do about the error message, if anything.
>
> Has this bug affected rankings, group membership,
> or the like?  Were changes made that shouldn't
> have been made during the conversion or on
> other occasions in the past when the error
> message showed up and shouldn't have?
>

Is there anything you want me to do/check regarding the 2 questions you 
posed below?  I would pretty much swear that this message has never come 
up before with regard to a census or demog upload.   I'm not really 
worried that I changed data during the conversion that I shouldn't have 
as a result of this message.  I don't change data unless there is a 
sensible explanation for the error message....I usually come whining to 
you first.


Tabby
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>                  -- Robert A. Heinlein
>
> P.S.  Next time it would help to be more clear
> that you were getting the message from the
> babase_test database.  I spend a bit of
> time poking about the babase database before
> figuring out that you'd been doing things
> in babase_test.
>
> P.P.S.  Babase_test has been vacuumed.
>
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