[OSM-dev] Mass imports (TIGER and AND)

[Steve Coast]

On 29 Aug 2007, at 09:16, Tom Hughes wrote:

> In message <0DA7FAF2-EB1D-4D0C-B0EF-B1B13036A99C at asklater.com>
>         Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>
>> On 29 Aug 2007, at 00:15, Tom Hughes wrote:
>>
>>> Well the transaction's a bit pointless, but that's the sort of
>>> thing - you need to make sure you call the right validation between
>>> creating the node and saving it as we don't currently have  
>>> everything
>>> in the right place - too much is done manually by the controller
>>> rather
>>> than being built into the model.
>>
>> Why is the transaction pointless? Isn't it _good_ that the entire
>> call would succeed or fail?
>
> That would certainly be a good aim. Unfortunately we're using MySQL
> and half our tables are MyISAM so it just gives false hope to use
> them with our database as only the InnoDB tables will be rolled back
> correctly on transaction failure.

Ah, that I didn't know.

have fun,

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