[mythtv-users] Repair mysql tables after power failure?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/03/2007 01:50 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> Consider it done. Is it worth adding something of this kind to Mythtv startup 
> generally? OK, I get a couple of outages/year so it's not a big problem 
> (actually, night before last, had 5 in 15 minutes, which is why this is in the 
> front of my brain just now). But power outages aren't the only reason a backend 
> can fall over. Should we be considering a database check every time the backend 
> comes up, if the above-mentioned "dirty" flag exists? i.e. built in to the 
> backend startup and shutdown scripts?

Working the issue as part of a much larger change.  It's far more
complex than it looks because of the dangers involved in doing a REPAIR.

Mike