[interchange-bugs] [rt.icdevgroup.org #297] removing MV_DEFAULT_SEARCH_FILE / MV_DEFAULT_SEARCH_TABLE ?

Gert van der Spoel via RT interchange at rt.icdevgroup.org
Sun Jul 12 08:49:17 UTC 2009


Sun Jul 12 08:49:17 2009: Request 297 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by thunder
       Queue: Interchange
     Subject: removing MV_DEFAULT_SEARCH_FILE / MV_DEFAULT_SEARCH_TABLE ?
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: ic-rt at 3edge.com
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: http://rt.icdevgroup.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=297 >


Adding additional tables to search on using the catalog config directive ProductFiles does initially appear to not work:

ProductFiles products products2

However this is caused by the following lines found in 
interchangd/catalog_before.cgi:

## Deprecated, could be removed in IC 5.2 (line added in 2003)
Variable  MV_DEFAULT_SEARCH_FILE  products 
Variable  MV_DEFAULT_SEARCH_TABLE products

* In what way are these Variables deprecated?
* Should code making use of these Variables be removed from:
Vend/Config.pm
Vend/DbSearch.pm
Vend/Glimpse.pm
Vend/Scan.pm
Vend/TextSearch.pm

Peter suggested on IRC that we could look at removing these variables from the tree and add to the upgrade document to suggest the alternative settings (such as adding to the directive ProductFiles ) ...



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