[mythtv-users] Is there an approved may to remove frontend settings?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 2/2/2014 1:23 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 2/2/2014 12:09 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> On 02/02/14 16:19, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>> On 2/2/2014 7:18 AM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>>>> is there an approved way to remove old frontend hostnames from the
>>>> database?
>>>
>>> Is there a reason to do so? All those old machine profiles are
>>> consuming a
>>> trivial amount of space compared to the seek tables and guide data.
>>> The only
>>> harm in keeping them around that I know of is the remote control in
>>> Mythweb that
>>> attempts to connect to each frontend control socket you have defined
>>> in the
>>> database.
>>>
>> Whenever this question is asked, the answer is always in terms of the
>> space used. That is almost always /never/ why the question is asked.
>> More like, it is an attempt by the user to clean out the table(s) so
>> that fault finding becomes less of an exercise in hacking one's way
>> through a jungle.
>
> The point is that the user shouldn't be fiddling in the database to find
> it "unclean" except in the case of development, which would more
> appropriately belong on the -dev list.

The two reasons to be in the database is because you're adding some new 
feature (development), or one of the developers screwed up and caused a 
bug that you're diagnosing (also development). There is considerable 
risk any time you alter MythTV's, or any other application's database, 
database manually, and threads as this that treat it with such caviler 
attitude are just going to get new users into trouble.