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[EP-tech] Re: Adding fields to a live system - any data integrity concerns?

Excellent! Thanks all; time to go and bang out a proper deployment plan!

On 21/07/2014 09:17, "Yuri" <yurj@alfa.it> wrote:

>Il 21/07/2014 09:51, Andrew Beeken ha scritto:
>> Okay, so I take it when Apache is stopped you can still run Perl scripts
>> on the server (epadmin etcŠ)?
>
>sure, because it uses the perl libraries directly and not apache.
>
>>
>> On 18/07/2014 16:57, "Sebastien Francois" <sf2@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Also stop the indexer when you stop apache and restart the indexer when
>>> you restart apache.
>>>
>>> Seb.
>>>
>>> On 18/07/14 16:49, Jan Ploski wrote:
>>>> If you want to do it as a hotfix, the proper procedure would be to
>>>> 1. Add expected columns and indexes to database tables
>>>> 2. Add the field definition (which depends on 1)
>>>> 3. (optional) Run whatever initialization scripts you need to run for
>>>> the field
>>>> 4. apachectl graceful
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, EPrints tools assume that you add the field definition
>>>> first and that they then update the database for you. This leaves a
>>>> window of inconsistency during which your users will get errors.
>>>>
>>>> Obviously, if you don't mind a short service interruption, it's not a
>>>> concern and you can do it "offline" during a maintenance window:
>>>> 1. apachectl stop
>>>> 2. Add field definition
>>>> 3. Use epadmin to update database
>>>> 4. (optional) Run whatever initialization scripts you need to run for
>>>> the field
>>>> 5. apachectl start
>>>>
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