Re: [mv] How/when does MV reload new tables? - ANYONE?

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

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Shawn -

I can't say that I'm positive on this, but I think Minivend internally 
notes the file date/time size for each source file each time it imports and 
does and build, then subsequently checks the current state of those file(s) 
against its record each time a catalog requests data.  If it finds a 
difference, it imports and builds just the changed file(s) again.  I really 
doubt that minivend would rebuild the entire file set because of a change 
in only one file.

- Ed L.


At 09:13 AM 3/27/00 -0800, you wrote:
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>On Thu, 23 March 2000, Shawn Butler - Blue Planet Corp wrote:
>
>Hello everyone.
>
>Im putting together a catalog with a few rather large
>tables of product. All of them are asc files for right
>now.
>
>I was reading the docs and saw:
>
>   More than one database may be used as a products
>   database. If the catalog directive ProductFiles
>   is set to a space-separated list of valid MiniVend
>   database identifiers, those databases will be
>   searched (in the order specified) for any items that
>   are ordered, or for product information (as in the
>   [price code] and [field code] tags).
>
>   When the database table source file (i.e. products.txt)
>   changes after import or edit, the DBM database is
>   re-built upon the next user access. No restart of the
>   server is necessary.
>
>This sounds great for my situation. But the my question is,
>when I have multiple tables listed as part of my products
>database (maybe 10 or so) and I update one of them, will
>all of the tables be reloaded, or just the one that changed?
>
>I guess I just dont fully understand how and when new tables
>are reloaded.
>
>If it reloads them all, it would take way too long. I am trying
>to think of a way to avoid having multiple catalogs. Using
>multiple catalogs would solve the reload issue, but then I would
>have to figure out some way to allow a customer to buy items
>from multiple catalogs with only one session/checkout.
>If changing the database on
>
>Thanks for any help!
>Shawn Butler
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