[Koha-devel] biblio deletion
paul POULAIN
paul.poulain at free.fr
Wed Nov 5 00:57:02 CET 2003
MJ Ray wrote:
> On 2003-11-03 13:35:52 +0000 paul POULAIN <paul.poulain at free.fr> 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)
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