[mythtv-commits] Ticket #13481: Missed recordings caused by EIT guide update
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#13481: Missed recordings caused by EIT guide update
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Reporter: Klaas de Waal | Owner: Klaas de Waal
Type: Patch - Bug Fix | Status: assigned
Priority: minor | Milestone: 31.0
Component: MythTV - EIT | Version: Master Head
Severity: low | Resolution:
Keywords: EIT | Ticket locked: 0
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Comment (by Klaas de Waal):
The solution implemented here does fix the existing implementation of the
single recording and it does this for EIT program updates only.
To capture the knowledge about this and to serve as an inspiration for
future development, possibly but not necessarily by me, here is a summary
of the issues and the alternatives.
**Change the primary key for table program**\\
The table program has chanid plus starttime as the primary key. If the
table program would have a primary key that is independent of the data
then a reference to an entry in the table program would remain valid even
if the starttime changes.
**Re-implement the "Single Recording"**\\
For all other types of recording the starttime is not used as a key and
hence the problem of changing starttimes does not exist. For instance,
with a power rule it is possible to search for a program with a specific
title in a time interval. It should be possible to implement the "Single
Recording" in this way. This would solve the problem both for EIT and for
XMLTV program guide updates.
**What about XMLTV/mythfilldatabase**\\
The program guide update code that is used by mythfilldatabase is much
simpler and does not try to identify the program that is being updated.
This is not done because the XMLTV/Schedules Direct data is always
complete so you can always add a program to the guide. In contrast, EIT
information can come in bits and pieces so there it is essential to
identify which program the update is intended for.\\
It is possible to merge the guide update code so that the XMLTV updates
are also processed by the EIT program matching code.\\
However, a better solution is probably to re-implement the Single
Recording with a search rule, as described above.
**Use MySQL schema for field update propagation**\\
As mentioned by Philipp Hahn in the email thread:\\
''Both MySQL and PostgreSQL support "ON UPDATE CASCADE", but the Schema
definition all lack the required "REFERENCES $table($column)" statements
for that to work. Then the DBMS would do the job for you, faster and
less error prone and guaranteed to follow the ACID properties.
''\\
This is an intriguing feature which I did not know before.
However, adding a database rule like this would always update the fields
in table record; the fix in the code is selective so that it only updates
the table record when there is a single recording. Also, a fix in code is
much more flexible than a database schema change. Another consideration is
that if database rules like this are used it does need to be commented in
the C++ code that depends on it otherwise the code will be, even more than
now, incomprehensible to most mortal beings.
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