[Babase] Dump problem?

Lacey Maryott lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Wed May 30 12:53:11 EDT 2007



Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 05/30/2007 11:31:32 AM, Lacey Maryott wrote:
>> Hey Karl,
>>    According to the changelog, the invalid posture in this sample (R 
>> *S* O S which should be R *2* O S) caused this particular line to be 
>> deleted as per a rule made before about these types of conversion 
>> errors.  It looks as thought this was the final conversion error 
>> fixed on the date it was fixed, and it was a day Leah and I were 
>> working together, which means it probably happened around 10-11 pm. 
>> So, thinking we may have just forgotten to remove deleted rows... I 
>> looked back in the latest DBF's I have here (updated may 23) and they 
>> have the row in fpsamps, marked for deletion as well as the row in 
>> fpneighbors which is not marked for deletion.  It's odd that this 
>> didn't kick out an error on its own.
>
> I'm not going to generate a conversion error because the
> conversion program does not get those rows as data. :-P
>
>  Tabby is going to keep the FP
>> database until tomorrow and fix what she needed to fix, but once I 
>> get it back, I can just remove the deleted row, and delete the 
>> other.  However, I'm not sure why you are unable to pull up those 
>> rows :-\
>
> The FPSAMPS row I don't see because it's deleted.  The FPNEIGHBORS row
> is a mystery.  The only thing I can think of is that the
> fpneighbors.dbf on papio is different from what you've got.
> Could that be?  I suppose there could always be a problem
> related to indexes, somehow.  I don't really believe it but
> there's some foxpro command or another (REINDEX maybe) that
> rebuilds the indexes.
>
>> If Leah used the version we have on our system here, it makes sense 
>> that those rows would have shown up in the dump.
>> I'm fearing this investigation uncovered more problems than it 
>> fixed.. :-\
>
> Maybe the problem is in the dump.  Did the dump come from you/Leah
> or from Tabby?  Could be there's just fpneighbors that's out of sync.
Leah did the dump on our end, but since then Tabby did one on her end.  
But she would have done it with the latest data that Leah used in terms 
of the fpsamps stuff. 
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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>                  -- Robert A. Heinlein
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Lacey Maryott
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Department of Biology
Duke University
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