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Re: 2.29/2.30 WARNING - do not use Maintenance->ClearAnalyticsTables & parameter "-T analytics*" for database dumps

 

I have started the work on renaming the table. I will update this thread as
soon as I make progress.

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:17 PM, Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Knut
>
> I mean the main issue the thread was about... using maintenance => clear
> analytic tables, it will delete analytics* which includes the analytical
> boundaries.
>
>
> --
> Morten Olav Hansen
> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
> University of Oslo
> http://www.dhis2.org
>
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 5:11 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Morten, sorry but which functionality are you suggesting should not be
>> used? What do you mean by manually deleting?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Knut
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 4:23 PM Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Calle
>>>
>>> We are aware of this issue (actually it caused a problem with us in
>>> Lao), for now.. I would also say don't use this functionality, its better
>>> to manually delete the analytics_* tables if you need it. We will rename
>>> that table soon we hope, and that should fix it (this also causes potential
>>> issues with your backups...)
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Morten Olav Hansen
>>> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
>>> University of Oslo
>>> http://www.dhis2.org
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bob,
>>>>
>>>> No response/action on the JIRA bug report yet - I guess most developers
>>>> are on leave (wonderful summer here in Norway this year).
>>>>
>>>> Otherwise I agree, the name of that table does not fit the general
>>>> naming convention as far as I can see. It would make more sense to call it
>>>> e.g. "programindicator_periodboundary". The name then provides an
>>>> intuitive description of the content and it sorts together with the group
>>>> of programindicator tables.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> calle
>>>>
>>>> On 12 July 2018 at 08:57, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thats nasty alright.  I guess using "-T anlytics_*" instead would
>>>>> help.  But there are so many backup scripts out there broken by this
>>>>> that it will be better to rename the table.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11 July 2018 at 22:39, Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Hi
>>>>> >
>>>>> > For as long as I can remember, we have used the standard parameter
>>>>> "-T
>>>>> > analytics*" when dumping a DHIS2 database into e.g. a backup or
>>>>> similar.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > The purpose of the parameter was to exclude all analytics tables
>>>>> from the
>>>>> > dump, since it is significantly faster to restore a dump without
>>>>> analytics
>>>>> > tables and then run analytics to re-create them (due to the use of
>>>>> > multi-threading), compared to dumping and restoring a database
>>>>> instance with
>>>>> > all the analytics table (restore is NOT using multi-threading).
>>>>> >
>>>>> > For some reason, in 2.29 a new table that stores periodboundary data
>>>>> for
>>>>> > Program Indicators was called "analyticsperiodboundary" - which
>>>>> means the
>>>>> > standard pg_dump parameter will leave that table behind together
>>>>> with all
>>>>> > other "analytics*" tables.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Furthermore, the routine called "Clear Analytics Tables" found under
>>>>> Data
>>>>> > Administration -> Maintenance is as before deleting all tables named
>>>>> > Analytics* - THE PROBLEM IS THAT IT ALSO DELETES THE NEW
>>>>> > ANALYTICSPERIODBOUNDARY TABLE (same in both 2.29 and 2.30)
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Which will crash your system in the sense that you won't see any
>>>>> program
>>>>> > indicator data in dashboards etc.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > The "analyticsperiodboundary" table will be re-created and
>>>>> re-populated with
>>>>> > DEFAULT (boundless) Program Indicator Period boundaries when you
>>>>> re-start
>>>>> > the system (it's part of the TableAlteror routine during startup),
>>>>> but
>>>>> > - you have to re-start the system
>>>>> > - you will lose any non-default boundary settings used for any
>>>>> program
>>>>> > indicator.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > This has also been reported as a high-priority bug on JIRA
>>>>> (DHIS2-4260).
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Regards
>>>>> > Calle
>>>>> >
>>>>> > *******************************************
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Calle Hedberg
>>>>> >
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>>>>> >
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>>>>> >
>>>>> > *******************************************
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> *******************************************
>>>>
>>>> Calle Hedberg
>>>>
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Stian Sandvold
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University of Oslo
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