Re: [Koha-devel] biblio deletion

[paul POULAIN]

MJ Ray wrote:

> On 2003-11-03 13:35:52 +0000 paul POULAIN <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > If you have MARC=on in systemprefs, then everytime something is donc 
> > on a biblio or an item (add, modif, delete -the last being broken-), 
> > it's done in MARC table 1st, then in non-MARC tables.
> > If you have MARC=off in systemprefs, it's the same, except that 
> > non-MARC is filled 1st, then MARC.
>
>
> So MARC tables are still updated even if MARC=off?

yes.

> I didn't realise that.

the reason for this is that you can switch from non-marc to marc if you 
want.

> How do we guard against/recover from some error occurring in the 
> second (non-MARC) update and leaving the two tables disagreeing with 
> each other?

by having a solid API in C4/Biblio.pm, and saying to everybody that want 
to populate tables "manually" => NO, USE Biblio.pm API
:-)

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)