Re: [Refdb-users] php web addnote functional

[Matt P. <mat...@ut...>]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 10:32:20PM +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> Matt Price writes:
>  > Hey folks,
>  > 
>  > I have finally (after demonstrating to myself many times over that I'm
>  >  a terrible programmer) gotten a barely adequate version of a web 'add
>  > note' page working.  You can find it here:
>  > http://www.derailleur.org/webref/index.php?format=risx&field=CK&searchText=Garthwaite2002
>  > 
> 
> First of all, thanks for this effort. Much appreciated.
> 
>  > a couple of serious problems:
>  > 
>  > -searching by author is entirely broken.  THis seems to be an issue
>  > with my refdb installation, as it doesn't work from refbc either.
>  > 
> 
> This is related to the next "problem".
> 
>  > - searches don't work on regex's -- that is, they only work when the
>  > precise, full field value is entered.  Again this seems to be a
>  > problem with my installation of refdb:  
>  > 	refdbc: getref :CK:=Martin2001
>  > 	gets a reference, whereas
>  > 	refdbc: getref :CK:=Martin 
>  > 	does not.
>  > 
> 
> As you're running the CVS version, you're ahead of the latest NEWS
> file (not yet checked in) which will explain a change in the query
> syntax. Queries using '=' or '!=' now default to a literal match, this
> is why 
>    refdbc: getref :CK:=Martin2001
> works for you. If you want a partial or a regexp match, you have to
> use the new tilde operators '~' and '!~' instead:
>    refdbc: getref :CK:~Martin
> 
> So if I understand your problem correctly, this is an "early adopter"
> issue. Sorry for the inconvenience.
> 
>  > - this last leads me to another issue with my refdb installation:  I
>  > can't delete notes.  
>  > e.g.: 
>  >  refdbc: deletenote :NID:>0
>  >  0 datasets deleted, 0 skipped
> 
> The deletenote command expects a whitespace-separated list of ID
> values, like this:
>     refdbc: deletenote 1 3 4-6
> The < and > operators are not (yet) implemented.
> 
>  > ... and also I periodically lose the capacity to add notes, and have
>  > to rebuild my db to get it back
>  > 
> 
> This is a serious issue that I can't reproduce here. In order to fix
> this I seriously need more debug information. If you find the time,
> please
> 
> - start refdbd with a log level of 7
> - start with a fresh database
> - use a defined set of notes and add them until addnote fails
> - send me the log and the set of notes that caused the failure.
> 
> I can't fix things which I can't reproduce. I need these data.


Hey Markus, sorry to take so long getting you data, but I'm being
somewhat unsystematic at the moment -- I will do my best to reproduce
the error faithfully and get back to you, but it will likely be a
couple of days at best.  Looking at my mail it sounds rather
plaintive, and I don't mean that actually -- I suspect the problem may
lie, for instance, in a faulty installation ofm ysql sor some such.   

anyway it's my birthday and we have a babysitter so I'm off to the
movies -- more sometime later!

matt
.  
> 
> Thanks
> Markus
>