[OSM-dev] Inconsistency in database?

[Frank Bielig]

Hallo,

I just checked the way 44141527. Calling 
http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/44141527 I get following result:

<osm version="0.6" generator="OpenStreetMap server">
  <way id="44141527" visible="true" timestamp="2009-11-11T17:31:53Z" 
version="2" changeset="3091813" user="Eric S" uid="45284">
    <tag k="boundary" v="national_park"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Réserve Nosy Hara"/>
    <tag k="source" v="ANGAP 2007"/>
  </way>
</osm>

No node references are returned. Asking for special version with  
http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/44141527/2 node references are 
returned:

<osm version="0.6" generator="OpenStreetMap server">
  <way id="44141527" visible="true" timestamp="2009-11-11T17:31:53Z" 
user="Eric S" uid="45284" version="2" changeset="3091813">
    <nd ref="560160550"/>
    <nd ref="560160548"/>
    <nd ref="560160549"/>
    ...
    <nd ref="560160626"/>
    <nd ref="560160550"/>
    <tag k="boundary" v="national_park"/>
    <tag k="name" v="Réserve Nosy Hara"/>
    <tag k="source" v="ANGAP 2007"/>
  </way>
</osm>

Unfortunately these node references are not valid. This inconsistency 
seems to be in planet file too. Does anybody has an idea of the reason? 
Should be a foreign key constraint in database schema? Currently only 
way id is checked:

     Table "public.way_nodes"
   Column    |  Type  | Modifiers
-------------+--------+-----------
 id          | bigint | not null
 node_id     | bigint | not null
 version     | bigint | not null
 sequence_id | bigint | not null
Indexes:
    "way_nodes_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id, version, sequence_id)
    "way_nodes_node_idx" btree (node_id)
Foreign-key constraints:
    "way_nodes_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (id, version) REFERENCES ways(id, 
version)



Frank

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