[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] mythtv branch master updated by gigem. v0.26-pre-525-g7fb9747

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Jun 12 11:10:05 UTC 2012


On 06/12/2012 12:49 AM, Nigel Pearson wrote:
>
> On 06/08/2012 02:30 AM, Nigel Pearson wrote:
>> for the sake of users, the schema upgrade code
>> needs to test+fail before doing its work?
>
>
> On 08/06/2012, at 8:30 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> These aren't actually required for the schema upgrade
> True, but if a user runs the upgrade, and afterwards
> part of their system doesn't work as before,
> we will be getting bug reports,
> pointing them to Bill's Wiki page, et c.
>
>
> Logging a message from the master backend is tidy,
> but mostly invisible for the average user who would
> only look after some recordings fail?
>
> That's why I reckon an upgrade failure is better.

Yeah, good point.  It's now looking like some of the final conversion 
stuff for the recording rules that David E is working on will require a 
DB update that requires time-zone data inside the database, so at that 
point, we'll have to put in the check on DB upgrade.

Mike


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