Forum OpenACS Development: general-comments almost done

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Posted by Pascal Scheffers on
I am almost done with general-comments. I had intended to commit most of it today, but my Oracle installation is dead, so I can't test the oracle part. As soon as I (or someone else) have confirmed that it still works in OpenACS/Oracle I will commit. In the mean time, those who need it can get it as an apm file from my site: http://pascal.scheffers.net/openacs/general-comments-4.0.apm.

You can not yet attach files/images to a comment, as I am not yet done with that part. The it makes use of the acs_message__new_file, which has been marked:

-- ACHTUNG!  WARNING!  ACHTUNG!  WARNING!  ACHTUNG!  WARNING! --
 
-- Developers: Please don't depend on the following functionality
-- to remain in the same place.  Chances are very good these
-- functions will migrate to another PL/SQL package or be replaced
-- by direct calls to CR code in the near future. 
What shall I do, just use them - or use the CR directly?

If someone knows how to fix the following problem with oracle, please tell me. While I was running the script to drop my test tablespace, oracle crashed (well, my Linux box did anyway, ten processes were marked 'defunct', oracle included). After reboot I got the following error:

SQL> Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area   85004272 bytes
Fixed Size                    69616 bytes
Variable Size              76374016 bytes
Database Buffers            8388608 bytes
Redo Buffers                 172032 bytes
Database mounted.
ORA-01157: cannot identify/lock data file 9 - see DBWR trace file
ORA-01110: data file 9: '/ora8/m02/oradata/ora8/openora01.dbf'


SQL> Disconnected

Database "ora8" warm started.
The openora01.dbf file has already been deleted by oracle (or my script, dunno which), so it's gone. But oracle still thinks it's there. I have found the trace file, which simple states 'file not found error'. How can I clean up the catalog (I assume that is what it's called) or something? I grep'ed for openora01.dbf, and these files match:
Binary file m01/app/oracle/oradata/ora8/control01.ctl matches
Binary file m01/app/oracle/oradata/ora8/control02.ctl matches
Binary file m01/app/oracle/oradata/ora8/control03.ctl matches
Binary file m01/app/oracle/oradata/ora8/rbs01.dbf matches
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Posted by Pascal Scheffers on
commit'ing the heinous sin of replying to my own post, I am happy to report that general-comments is now available for OpenACS-4. I managed to get my Oracle back on its feet, and gc-oracle works (for me). It's in CVS.

I need to squat some bugs, but any module depending on GC should work, just don't try to add images/files right now.

I would still like some feedback on wether I can rely on acs_message__add_file or if I need to use CR.

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Posted by Dan Wickstrom on
There has been some discussions on refactoring the messaging/mail packages, and it appears that the acs_message package is nothing more than an wrapper around the content-repository, so it seems like a good idea to just go ahead and call the CR package functions directly.
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Posted by Pascal Scheffers on
Yes, those functions in acs-messaging-packages.sql do nothing but
combine two or three calls to CR. Should I use CR for Postgres and
Oracle, or just PG?
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Posted by Dan Wickstrom on
Use it for both.  As much as possible, we want both the oracle and postgresql versions to function the same.