[Koha-patches] [PATCH] Use biblioitems.itemtype as a default for items.itype

[Michael Hafen]

Good point, that could potentially save a database operation.  Thanks.
I'll update and repost that.

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 14:06 -0400, Joe Atzberger wrote:
> 
> Wouldn't you rather check $value before you go retrieving a
> $default_itemtype you might not use?
> 
>         +          my $default_itemtype;
>         +          my $itype_sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT itemtype FROM
>         biblioitems WHERE biblionumber = ?");
>         +          $itype_sth->execute( $biblionumber );
>         +          ( $default_itemtype ) = $itype_sth->fetchrow_array;
>         +          $value = $default_itemtype unless ($value);