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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On March 10, 2010, Curtis Hovey wrote:
> Hi Stuart.
> 
> I am having a moment of uncertainty. I want to add new karmaactions and
> a new karmacategory for the registry. I think there is something
> fundamentally wrong with karma (and celebrities). But I may be confused.
> 
> I was using a patch to add the new data and I had to hardcode the serial
> to avoid a constraint violation with karmaaction_pkey. Edwin explained
> that the problem was not my patch, but that sampledata was loaded after
> the patch was applied.
> 
> I think that instead of writing a patch, I should provide a migration
> script that can be run on dev to make the current.sql and
> current-dev.sql, and then run in staging and production. This sounds
> somewhat risky, and we do not want to create new sampledata.

Yes, that's how I did way back when I added the answers karma category.



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Francis J. Lacoste
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