Automatic Database Upgrade and Versioning

[Scorpious2k]

I hate people who wait until something is done and then come around to poke it and criticize. I apologize if I appear to be doing that. That isn't what is intended. I think this is a brilliant and useful feature!

That said, wouldn't it have been better in shared_memory instead of world? That way it could update the DB before writing out the tables. Tables affected, including those in shared memory would then be up-to-date before you got to world.

It seems to me that if you do it in world, and tables affected includes those in shared_memory then shared_memory could crash before ever getting to world or it would write old style tables to shared memory which would ultimately cause problems in world/zones.

I could of course be wrong.

[Akkadius]

I think people are severely missing the point here.

I did this for a mere quality of life benefit for the EQEmu community.

The complaints or suggestions I'm getting are one small fucking step in regards to quality of life as to how you open your server. Patch it, be done within seconds, never see it again until next binary update actually requires a database change.

If you are maintaining a server, updating binaries, you need to update your database, it's that simple. Otherwise, there is no change in the workflow.

[chrsschb]

Originally Posted by Akkadius

I think people are severely missing the point here.

I did this for a mere quality of life benefit for the EQEmu community.

The complaints or suggestions I'm getting are one small fucking step in regards to quality of life as to how you open your server. Patch it, be done within seconds, never see it again until next binary update actually requires a database change.

If you are maintaining a server, updating binaries, you need to update your database, it's that simple. Otherwise, there is no change in the workflow.

No hate intended from me, just wanting to make sure I understand 100%.

Appreciate it!

[provocating]

Oh my!! Going to test this out soon, awesomeness.

[Akkadius]

Here is a Wiki article that may explain things a little more clearly:

http://wiki.eqemulator.org/p?Automat...ystem&frm=Main

In the end, the system is super simple to use.