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:: 18-Nov-2003 09:45 GMT (Tuesday) ::
Looks like I was a bit too clever when I partitioned blower and now it’s biting
me in the butt (though I hadn’t anticipated 2 20G databases sharing the same
box).
Anyway, I’m moving the OGR verification database to a different partition. I
don’t know how long it’ll take; I’m guessing an hour. PostgreSQL has to stay
down while I’m doing this, and that means stats has to be down as well. I’ll
have it back up ASAP.
:: 18-Nov-2003 02:03 GMT (Tuesday) ::
Turns out that queries against the team table are locked out while this RI is
being added. Rather than take the site down while this is going on, I’ve hacked
up the PHP a bit to set a database query timeout and to display a crude error
message when a database error occurs. I don’t really know how to get rid of
the inaccurate error messages (such as ‘team not found’; your team is still
there, you just can’t see it right now). Hopefully the database error text
makes people realize this is a temporary issue.
I know this is an ugly hack of a solution; anyone so inclined is welcome to
submit a patch to any of the stats bugs (there’s already one open about the
error reporting). If you’re really adventurous, figure out how to modify
PostgreSQL so that adding RI doesn’t block all table access. ;)
:: 18-Nov-2003 01:01 GMT (Tuesday) ::
I’m finally adding RI between the main history table and other tables.
Unfortunately, I have to disable phistory while this is happening. I should be
able to turn it back on in the morning.
:: 17-Nov-2003 00:21 GMT (Monday) ::
Statsrun is going again, but team renumber is going to have to wait a while so
I can figure out a better way to do it.
:: 16-Nov-2003 23:22 GMT (Sunday) ::
Unfortunately I’ve hit a snag doing the team renumbering. Stats can stay online
while I’m fixing this, but I have to suspend the statsruns. I should be able to
start them back up tomorrow.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
:: 15-Nov-2003 14:04 GMT (Saturday) ::
Stats are back up. I’ll be renumbering teams pretty soon, but hopefully that
won’t impact the site too much.
:: 15-Nov-2003 13:45 GMT (Saturday) ::
I’m going to be re-arranging a few things on statsbox. Unfortunately, I have to
shut down the database to do this.
I hope to have things up and running again within an hour.
:: 27-Oct-2003 15:51 GMT (Monday) ::
Almost forgot… team joins are turned on again. :) Enjoy!
:: 27-Oct-2003 15:50 GMT (Monday) ::
I’d like to re-number all teams with IDs over 20,000 before we turn team
creation back on (which will happen in a few days).
The up-side is that every team would have a 5 digit ID again (which is how it
was supposed to work in the first place). The down-side is that existing URLs
won’t work anymore (although we could make the code automagically re-direct to
the proper team ID for all teams over 50,000).
I’d like to know what people think before I do this. Please post your comments
to rc5@distributed.net.
:: 23-Oct-2003 21:22 GMT (Thursday) ::
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