When metadata creator is empty

Posted on 2008-05-23 16:49:48 EEST.

Quite major bug has been found today. 1.8.7 Midgard release doesn't populate metadata_creator guid. Midgard news page has a note about this.

I wrote additional script which should help with database upgrade if needed:

#!/bin/sh

DB="midgard"
MYSQLCMD="/usr/bin/mysql"

THEADER="Tables_in_${DB}"
MIDGARD_TABLES=`$MYSQLCMD -D $DB -e 'show tables' | grep -Ev '(_i\s*\|?\s*$)|repligard|sitegroup|Tables_in_.+'`

for TABLE in $MIDGARD_TABLES; do

    QUERY="UPDATE ${TABLE} SET metadata_creator=REPLACE(metadata_authors, '|' ,'')  WHERE metadata_creator='' AND metadata_authors<>'' AND metadata_authors<>'||' AND LENGTH(metadata_authors) < 39"
    echo "Fixing table: ${TABLE}"
    $MYSQLCMD -D ${DB} -e "${QUERY}"

    echo "Looking for multiple authors"
    QUERY="SELECT guid from ${TABLE} WHERE LENGTH(metadata_authors) > 38 AND metadata_creator='' AND metadata_authors<>'||' AND metadata_authors<>''"
    $MYSQLCMD -D ${DB} -e "${QUERY}"

done

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