[ic] Adding columns to the products database?

Frysco! francisco@vulpes.net
Wed, 23 Aug 2000 09:26:56 -0700


On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 10:11:02AM +0100, Jonathan Clark wrote:
> Are you using MySQL?

No. *.txt files, tab delimited.

> I found that if the txt file does not exactly match the structure of the
> database, the catalogue will fail to reinitialise.
> (different behaviour to minivend)

Well, after banging the text file against the wall a few times, eventually
it just decided to work. I _think_ that there's some weird file locking
issue that causes the database not to be rebuilt while the file is still
open in vi or whatever. Anyway, it's behaving now. 

Thanks,
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Frysco!
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