Re: [Gnumed-bugs] Inbox items carried across a database upgrade

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 07:49:47PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> The inbox items show, under the column
> 
>       Sent (which label is being renamed Created, or perhaps [better] 
> Generated)

Rrrr'lly ??   Changed :)

> the following kinds of values:
> 
>       <system> → all
>       LMcC → LMcC
>       LMcC → KaHi
>       <gm-dbo> → LMcC
> 
> where
> 
>       <system> → all … appears to relate to auto-generated virtual items 
> (unsigned etc)

indeed

>       LMcC → LMcC
>       LMcC → KaHi … were the result of LMcC accessing the chart of a staff 
> (KaHi)
> 
>       <gm-dbo> → LMcC … include items like release notes, contributed by the 
> bootstrapper

correct

> but does <gm-dbo> also become the pseudo-source of
> user-created inbox messages, by virtue of becoming the user
> who "modified" these items as a result of inserting the
> records from the old database into the new one?

It shouldn't (because the database isn't "copied" at the
*logical* level but rather "cloned" at the physical level so
the items don't really get modified, unless, of course, they
do, courtesy of some SQL upgrade script at which point they
may indeed). Have you observed differently ?

Karsten
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