[Babase] preg upload creates error in cycstats

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Tue Jan 29 14:41:18 EST 2008


On 01/29/2008 01:27:31 PM, kfenn wrote:

> This does raise a question of whether I should make this deletion  
> part of the update protocol.

Note that REPSTATS and all the other "generated" cycle related
tables might have similar problems.  YMMV.

  If so, its got to be Step 1 for the
> update and I will have to send out an email every six months telling  
> people CYCSTATS is out of commission until I get the update done.  I  
> don't think this is a big deal as long as I can do a trial update in  
> another database first....but I have the sense that eventually we are  
> getting rid of babase_test, right?

There's no plans for getting rid of babase_test.  In fact I was
thinking about making more test-ish databases, but it will have
to wait until there's a relatively major re-configuration of the
server (via Hunter) because of the way the disk is presently laid
out.  (The present layout facilitates the conversion.)

  Its just that working out all the
> errors using the babase database could take a while and CYCSTATS  
> would be out of commission during that time.
> The other option would be to have it update automatically.  Karl,  
> what was the original reason for not having an automatic update?

I was working too slowly and Susan had other priorities and wanted
to get the DB into production.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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