Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/tutorial-database.html =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/tutorial-database.html,v diff -u -N -r1.44.2.16 -r1.44.2.17 --- openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/tutorial-database.html 11 Jun 2017 08:42:13 -0000 1.44.2.16 +++ openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/tutorial-database.html 15 Jun 2017 13:56:42 -0000 1.44.2.17 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Setting Up Database Objects
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Setting Up Database Objects

by Joel Aufrecht

OpenACS docs are written by the named authors, and may be edited by OpenACS documentation staff. -

Code the data model

We create all database objects with scripts in the +

Code the data model

We create all database objects with scripts in the myfirstpackage/sql/ directory. All database scripts are database-specific and are thus in either the myfirstpackage/sql/oracle or @@ -32,13 +32,13 @@ repository functions to simplify our database creation. (More information about ACS Objects. More information about the Content Repository.) -

Figure 9.2. Tutorial Data Model

Tutorial Data Model

The top of each sql file has some +

Figure 9.2. Tutorial Data Model

Tutorial Data Model

The top of each sql file has some standard comments, including doc tags such as @author which will be picked up by the API browser. The string $Id$ will automatically be expanded when the file is checked in to cvs.

[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME ~]$ cd /var/lib/aolserver/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME/packages/myfirstpackage/sql/postgresql
-[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME postgresql]$ emacs myfirstpackage-create.sql

Paste the text below into the file, save, and close.

Figure 9.3. The Database Creation Script

-- creation script
+[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME postgresql]$ emacs myfirstpackage-create.sql

Paste the text below into the file, save, and close.

Figure 9.3. The Database Creation Script

-- creation script
 --
 -- @author joel@aufrecht.org
 -- @cvs-id &Id:$
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
     object.  Notice the use of "mfp."  This is derived from "My
     First Package" and ensures that our object is unlikely to conflict
     with objects from other packages.
Create a database file to drop everything if the package is uninstalled.
-[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME postgresql]$ emacs myfirstpackage-drop.sql
Figure 9.4. Database Deletion Script
-- drop script
+[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME postgresql]$ emacs myfirstpackage-drop.sql
Figure 9.4. Database Deletion Script
-- drop script
 --
 -- @author joel@aufrecht.org
 -- @cvs-id &Id:$