[mythtv-users] Asking before upgrading the schema

[George Nassas]

On 4-Jul-06, at 9:22 AM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:

> Is there some reason why Myth doesn't -ASK- first?  If someone
> submitted a patch to make it ask, would it be accepted?
>
> People who want to be continually upgrading can set a DB flag to "go
> ahead without even notifying me", but those who don't -think- they're
> in the middle of an upgrade presumably would have left this at the
> default and will have a chance of stopping a disastrous one-way trip
> when they're asked, out of the blue, "Hey, are you -sure- you want to
> upgrade your DB schema?"

Another approach might be to only allow backends to upgrade the  
database or, even better, a master BE.

I haven't been hit by this little bugaboo but I could see how it  
would be really annoying.

- George