[Babase] Re: Re: 07a update progress

kfenn kfenn at Princeton.EDU
Fri Feb 8 08:42:01 EST 2008


This is the third time I'm trying to send this email.
Hopefully there won't be a fourth.


Tabby

kfenn wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm sorry but I had no idea that this email message below hadn't gone 
> out until this morning (should have gone out on Tuesday).  One of the 
> Princeton servers has been behaving badly... I just found out from 
> Karl yesterday that he didn't get another message I sent Tuesday.
>
> So the update from Tuesday is below.  Today's update is the following:
> The final piece of this update (Demog /Other group notes...unless I'm 
> forgetting something else!) is, unfortunately, going slowly.  We found 
> what Karl believes to be a postgres bug.  Basically, the database is 
> not allowing me to upload any demog notes where the values in the grp 
> and reference column do not match.  This error was a little slow 
> revealing itself because the test files worked just fine...(they just 
> happened to have an exact match).  Karl will upgrade us to a more 
> recent version that may fix the bug...but we won't know for sure until 
> we try.
>
> In the meanting, I will input the last 2-3 dozen notes by hand.  This 
> takes longer because I have to update two tables separately and to do 
> that I break apart all the information I've consolidated.  Barring 
> further errors,  I think I can get the manual inputs completed today.  
> The tables (and their associated views) that will be affected are:
>
> CENSUS
> DEMOG
> MEMBERS
>
>
> I'll keep you posted.
>
>
> Tabby
>
>
>
> kfenn wrote:
>> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Hi 
>> Everyone,
>>
>> The tables:
>> CYCLES
>> PREGS
>> BIOGRAPH
>> DISPESEDATES
>> CYCSTATS
>> REPSTATS
>>
>> all received further updates today and should have current info up to 
>> June 2007.  I've hit a speedbump with the Demog notes and Other Group 
>> notes so the Census table is still missing some of the handwritten 
>> notes.  I just have a few files left to upload so hopefully they will 
>> go in tomorrow.
>>
>> Thanks for your patience!
>>
>> Tabby
>>
>

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Tabby Fenn
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Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Princeton University
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