[OSM-talk] downtime

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Thursday 06 Jul 2006 17:17, Tommy Persson wrote:
> SteveC <steve at asklater.com> writes:
> > Unless anyone has major objections I'm going to take the server down on
> > Saturday to do the work to
> >
> > * Speed up the segments SQL stuff (2nd part of 3 improvments)
> > * re-sync the MySQL slaves and set up another to do daily dumps
>
> Does that inlcude fixing the bug that makes it impossible to create
> ways?
>
>    rice:~/osm/svn/editors/osmpedit> perl osmpcommand --createway
>    DATA: <osm version="0.3">
>      <way id="0">
>      </way>
>    </osm>
>
>    URL:http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.3/way/0
>    Way created: Error code:
>    1064
>
>    Error message: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the
>    manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right
>    syntax to use near '' at line 1
>
> If it is not fixed in the weekend could somebody please mail here when
> it is fixed.  This is kind of blocking my hacking on osmpedit.

You definitely can create ways now, I created about 50 last night.
Could the error be that your way has no constituent segments?

Nick