[ic] re: NoImport Directives

[Cameron B. Prince]

I see the command there, but the docs describe NoImport.

If this is a global command, the databases wouldn't need to be specified.

I'll investigate this sometime.

Cameron

-----Original Message-----
From: interchange-users-admin@minivend.com
[mailto:interchange-users-admin@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Houman Akhavan
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 3:06 PM
To: interchange-users@minivend.com
Subject: Re: [ic] re: NoImport Directives


Cameron,

Quoting mvdocs.pod line 13185

When set to one or more Interchange database identifiers,
those database(s) will never be subject to import. Useful for SQL
databases, or databases that will *never* change.

        NoImportExternal Yes

Houman A.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron B. Prince" <cameron@akopia.com>
To: <interchange-users@minivend.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 12:26 PM
Subject: RE: [ic] re: NoImport Directives


> I have not used, and wasn't even aware of the existence of
NoImportExternal.
> I did a quick search and didn't see that one in the docs... How did you
> learn about it?
>
> Just put all the databases on the line with products:
>
> NoImport  products area cat orderline transactions
>
> It really doesn't matter where the command goes in the catalog.cfg. It can
> go inside the #ifdef MYSQL if you only want to prevent the import while
> using MYSQL.
>
> No # on directives, only conditionals.
>
> I am not sure I understand your reasoning here. It's normally beneficial
to
> have the database import. You use the .txt files as online, live backups
of
> your databases. Keep them up to date by using tag export in a
receipt/report
> or a cron job that runs a script, that in turn runs mysqldump -t and adds
> the header.
>
> Then if the database gets hosed, all you have to do is rm *.sql and
restart.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Cameron
>


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