[mythtv] mythfilldatabase failed and also destroyed by schedule!

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 09 June 2004 01:45 pm, Andrew M. Bishop wrote:
> Isaac Richards <ijr at po.cwru.edu> writes:
> > On Monday 07 June 2004 12:11 pm, Andrew M. Bishop wrote:
> > > Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
> > > > I'm running 0.15.1 and mythfilldatabase failed last night.  In the
> > > > process it also destroyed today's program data.  From the status
> > > > page, it says:
> > > >
> > > > If it fails to grab data why did it destroy my schedules?
> > >
> > > This is unfortunately the default behaviour of mythfilldatabase, it
> > > wipes the existing data for the day it has just downloaded then
> > > inserts the new data.
> >
> > It's only the default behavior for the native DataDirect grabber.  The
> > xmltv grabber will only clear data if it has data for that day and
> > channel.
>
> It looks like things have changed since I added the --no-delete
> option, but I am still not 100% convinced.  If xmltv returns an
> incomplete set of data for a channel the other programs for that day
> on that channel will still be wiped unless the --no-delete option is
> used.  It used to be the case that the data was wiped before any
> checking that there is any new data.
>
> If you use xmltv in a region where the downloaded data runs from 6am
> to 6am (for example) then it is still possible to wipe a whole day's
> worth of data and only replace from midnight to 6am.

I wasn't talking about 'complete' data.  It requires _some_ data to be present 
for the day/channel in question before removing.  You're right in that it 
assumes that if we ask xmltv for a day's worth of data, we only get that day 
back.

Isaac