[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Two minor issues to report

[Warren Layton]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/11/6 Warren Layton <warren.layton at gmail.com>:
>> * Under "Advanced Search", the "MARC Expert Search" doesn't return any
>>  results, even when I know it should. For example, I have some records that
>>  contain the value "B" in field 991, subfield a. However, no records are
>>  returned when I perform a MARC Expert Search with these terms.
>
> MARC Expert Search in the OPAC only returns results for records that
> have copies attached - transcendant records are not retrieved. You can
> see the OpenSRF method that is called in the gateway log:
> open-ils.search.biblio.marc
>
> MARC Expert Search in the staff client returns results for all
> records, whether there are copies attached or not. You can see that a
> different OpenSRF method is called in the gateway log:
> open-ils.search.biblio.marc.staff
>
> I suspect this explains what you're seeing. Try attaching a copy to
> one of those records, and you should be able to use the MARC Expert
> Search to retrieve it.


Thanks Dan! I think that's exactly what happened. I had previously
added some copies but I blew my data away and re-imported (without
adding copies) when I moved to trunk.

Cheers,
  Warren


>> * I have imported a number of MARC bib records. I never thought to look into
>>  the top-level SQL file (in my case, iii_full.sql, which pulls in
>>  iii_full.*.sql). It was brought to my attention that the final line,
>>  "COMMIT", is commented out and that, without removing the "-- " at the
>>  beginning of the line, the data should not be successfully imported because
>>  it would be rolled back. However, even with this line commented out, my bib
>>  data gets imported without any problems. Is anyone else able to do this, or do
>>  I just have spectacular computer karma?
>
> I haven't done an import for a while now; are there any other COMMIT
> statements that have been introduced into the set of SQL statements
> generated by parallel_pg_loader.pl?
>
>> Both systems are running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. We are running 1.4rc1 on Ubuntu
>> Server at work and I'm running SVN trunk on Ubuntu Desktop.
>
>
> --
> Dan Scott
> Laurentian University
>