Hey ! I have created a small patch for Invenio allowing easier dropping of DB tables. This patch solves my problems caused by working with different versions of Invenio on the same machine and database. There are 2 main uses:
1) Someone wants to downgrade Invenio (or in general drop database using different version that was used for the creation). In such case tabdrop.sql is incompatible with tabcreate.sql used to build the database. 2) Someone has tables created by external scripts (or for example some updater scripts which create backup tables) The new option is: --drop-all-tables and removes all database tables regardless if they are specified in tabdrop.sql When after user runs inveniocfg with --drop-tables option, some tables remain - a warning is generated and names of all remaining tables are listed. (With a suggestion that user might want to execute --drop-all-tables) Could we integrate this mini-branch in master ? It is useful for development and maybe for some end-users. I know that this option is a bit more risky to use... so maybe if it is not desired to be publicly visible ( less interesting for end-users than developers) - maybe we could make it a hidden undocumented option, yet accepted by inveniocfg ? The branch is available under the name warning_droptables in my public repository or: http://invenio-software.org/repo/personal/invenio-ppraczyk/log/?h=warning_droptables Cheers Piotr (ok ;) I have written more e-mail to justify than code ;) )
