[MOBY-dev] deregistration of one service deletes many other services!

[Rebecca Ernst]

Hi Mark!

finally I found the problem which killed most of the Planet Central 
registry!

The symptom was this: when I ran the registration skript aiming to 
delete one (named!) service I ended up with about 140 services deleted 
and only 24 left in the registry. So I had a look at the database (table 
service_instance)  and compared the services which were left compared to 
the ones that were deleted.
It turned out that the ones left had a lsid whereas the ones that were 
deleted had no lsid.
I am currently updating all service_instances by hand nevertheless I 
think it is worth changing the call so it leaves the other services 
where they are. I think the call should only affect the service I 
explicitly named.
I could imagine that other people also have old registries where the 
service_instances do not contain lsids. In my case a lucky accident 
caused that I made a database dump one day before this happend :-) , 
otherwise many services would have been lost forever.

Cheers,
Rebecca




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Rebecca Ernst
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GSF Research Center for Environment and Health
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