[ic] New catalog without restarting IC

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Quoting Rob Buijs (rob@merchandisingdirect.com):
> Hi,
> 
> I'm building a system that will start with 30+ shops and will start growing
> the moment it's on-line. There will be new shops added every week. Now,
> every time I add a shop I have to restart IC, killing all sessions to the
> shops. (If I restart nicely, by waiting for all sessions to end, restarting
> takes too long).
> 
> So, my question:
> 
> Is it possible to get a new catalog on-line without having to restart the
> entire IC process?
> 

You didn't notice the last option on makecat?

	Add catalog to server running on PID $pid? 

The method is shown in the source of makecat. It goes much
faster if you already have any database tables pre-built, but
should work even if you don't.

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