[ic] Keeping database and text files in sync

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (John Allman)]

Ed LaFrance wrote:

> At 11:47 AM 9/18/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>
>> I could be way off, but it appears that a problem that i have been 
>> experiencing recently with a loop statement is related to my mysql 
>> table and the text file in products/ for that table have gotten out 
>> of sync. For example a product with a code 473 has a completely 
>> different definition in each. I know that there is an "auto-export" 
>> checkbox in the admin interface, but i'm wondering if there's some 
>> way to tell interchange to grab all the info in the mysql table and 
>> overwrite the current text file with it?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> John Allman
>
>
> Another approach to this is to just ensure that you are reading data 
> from the mySQL table, not the text file. st=db in any search will take 
> care of this, and I believe you can set this as the  default condition 
> (if it is not automatically the default by now) with 
> MV_DEFAULT_SEARCH_DB (set it to '1').
>
> - Ed L.

Thanks! That sounds remarkably useful. In catalog.cfg i assume.

John