[Koha-bugs] [Bug 1016] New: Crashed mySql tables

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http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1016

           Summary: Crashed mySql tables
           Product: Koha
           Version: 2.2.0
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows 2000
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Database
        AssignedTo: address@hidden
        ReportedBy: address@hidden
         QAContact: address@hidden


This is some enhancement you may think about.
The other day marc_subfield_table crushed. (How? Don't ask.) Nobody realised 
and Koha did not complain at all. We went on adding and modifying about 200 
biblios without realising anything. Unless you go to see the MarcDetails 
everything looks fine. We found out on a un-routine Mysql tables check this 
was the case. What happened was that all the tables were being filled properly 
but the marc_subfield_table.
The cleaning of the database was a little bit messy. It took more than half a 
day plus reentering all the data.
We panicked so much that we added two lines to addbiblio.pl and additem.pl 
which locks and unlocks all the necessary times momentarily and on error 
returns you to mainpage.pl with error message "Contact automation for Mysql 
error". This way no addition or modification of tables is possible untill 
problem resolved.
I know that this is not a common problem and yes I do not know how we managed 
to crush the table but yes tables do crash so it may be something to consider 
committing such a control in your script. Even if not committing I'll 
appreciate any better (faster) way of checking Mysql-health at least for us to 
use.



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