[email protected] wrote:
I'm actually referring to the existing issue of migrating data from
the old pre-ROBUST user databases to the post-ROBUST data schemas
outlined on http://opensimulator.org/wiki/0.7_Planning. This is still
an open issue, right?
I think that's fixed.
Migrations are always a sensitive part of the process, because people
may act on the DBs externally and invalidate the assumptions for the
migration code. Some migration steps are more sensitive than others. The
most important thing is to make sure that data migration is technically
possible, i.e. that no data is left behind; whether the migration is
done by OpenSim code or manually, that's a second-order issue. Automatic
migrations are desirable, but if, for some reason, they fail, then there
must be a path to manual migration.
For example, for SQLite, the migration code makes a lot of assumptions
about the file names. Those assumptions may be wrong. As long as people
rename their db files according to what's now expected, migration
happens. And if it doesn't happen automatically, at the very least we
can explain how to make it happen by copy-and-pasting statements onto a
sqlite3 console.
That sounds very reasonable to me. If things are as OpenSim expects then an
automatic migration will take place. If people have varied certain settings
then some manual intervention will be required.
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