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

[Tony Gould]

R. G. Newbury wrote, on 02/02/14 22:01:
>
>> for what it's worth, I agree with Bill. I'm happy to change some of the
>> other tables with SQL (backing up every step of the way), but I wouldn't
>> go near the settings table. I thought about doing it once, but after
>> doing a SELECT query to see what was there I quickly decided it was a
>> very risky idea.
>
> And for what it's worth, the ONLY table which I have seriously fiddled 
> with IS the settings table. I checked at one point and found that I 
> had three different hostnames, and a fair number of duplicate settings 
> *for the same hostname*.
>
> No damage ensued. The only other table I touch is the recorded table, 
> when inserting downloaded videos to poke in the filesize. But that is 
> done by a script.
>
>
so if we put you and me together we could have a team that could safely 
write to the whole database :)