[Koha-bugs] [Bug 34063] items.paidfor and deleteditems.paidfor still sometimes exist

[bugzilla-daemon at bugs.koha-community.org]

https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=34063

--- Comment #15 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer at bsz-bw.de> ---
(In reply to Pedro Amorim from comment #11)
> Imo this issue needs to be handled by sys admins on systems that require it
> fixed.
> I think it's very unlikely to have data in this column, and even more
> unlikely for this data to be actually real and utilized data, however just
> dropping the column entirely would open a precedent and at the end of the
> day, someone may in fact be using it for some odd reason.

There is some history there that might be worthwhile knowing: items.paidfor for
quite some while was mapped by default in new installations to one of the item
note fields (I don't remember if it was public or non public). IIRC we were not
able to do a clean migration when we introduced a new column to fix that. So
it's not super unlikely to have data especially for very old installations.

> As a compromise I've submitted a patch that shows a warning in the about ->
> system information page to help guide sys admins in fixing it. This is just
> an idea, let me know if it makes sense or follow up if it you think it can
> be improved!

I like the direction :) 

I'd also like something that doesn't "stop" the update process, but can be
handled after an update separately. So that sounds good.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are watching all bug changes.
You are the assignee for the bug.