[BlueOnyx:03689] Re: Unable to create new sites

[David Booth]

On 26/02/2010, at 6:55 AM, Steve Howes wrote:

>
> On 25 Feb 2010, at 19:28, David Booth wrote:
>> Ah - that's it.
>>
>> cd /usr/sausaito/codb
>>
>> ls objects | sort -n
>>
>> Note the last number (the biggest) - call it X
>>
>> edit the codb.oids file and make it say
>>
>> 1-X
>>
>> Then create your site.
>
> That'd leave gaps in the ID numbers. Don't know if it will cause
> problems but its certainly... wrong... scripted way is better.
>

I used a script (with a few false starts) for a while but found 
codb.oids got overwritten anyway after a few days - often incorrectly.
I haven't had any ill effects from just using X. After I do it and 
carry on with creating my new site/user/whatever I see it increment to 
X+1.
I even did a few tests - delete an object and it decrements to X-1. 
Come back in a few hours and I see it all rebuilt with 1-A,B-C, etc - 
sometimes right, sometimes wrong.
I have had paid help on this and it has escalated somewhere for a 'big 
fix of the underlying code one day'

Seems to me there's a universal unknown about missing ID numbers. 
Nobody knows if it causes problems. Who would create a file based 
object indexing engine that depends on an index being absent for 
consistency? Are we going to run out of numbers one day?