IRC log for #dataverse, 2021-03-25

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13:15	pdurbin	If anyone is interested in controlled vocabulary, we're talking about it now.
13:16	pdurbin	this: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/pull/6521
13:17	pdurbin	whoops, this one: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/pull/7712
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13:35	poikilotherm	Hey pdurbin
13:35	poikilotherm	"Now"? You mean like in ~ half hour during the metadata working group meeting, right?
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14:04	pdurbin	then is now now
14:39	poikilotherm	:-D
14:40	poikilotherm	pdurbin I have another question for our CCO / metadata block guru
14:40	poikilotherm	May I drop that here?
14:48	pdurbin	poikilotherm: sure, go ahead
14:51	poikilotherm	:-)
14:51	poikilotherm	When I have a current metadata block with a field "x"
14:51	poikilotherm	How do I rename that field to "y" without loosing the data?
14:52	poikilotherm	There isn't support for this in Dataverse, right?
14:52	poikilotherm	I need to do the data migration via DB manually and reindex afterwards, right?
14:53	pdurbin	Right. A lot of work. No API for this.
14:54	pdurbin	But should be achievable. Not that I've ever done it myself.
14:59	poikilotherm	Achievable to create an API or to do this manually? :-D
14:59	pameyer	if you're talking renaming a single field globally, I think it only needs one db update for the datasetfieldtype (possibly remembering incorrectly) table
15:03	pdurbin	Both. Everything is possible with code.
15:04	poikilotherm	Should we create an API endpoint to rename a field?
15:05	pdurbin	Sounds good to me. People care about their data. My fix would be to drop my database and start over. :)
15:06	poikilotherm	🤩
15:07	poikilotherm	Anybody need that s**t? No? Good - go nuke it!
15:07	poikilotherm	Oh no I dropped the production database...
15:07	poikilotherm	Where's that backup again?
15:09	pameyer	db transactions are nice - but not sure if they help you with drop database...
15:09	poikilotherm	They do. Until you `COMMIT;`
15:10	pameyer	which of course, will be only a moment or two before you realize you needed it
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20:42	poikilotherm	How cool is that? https://skyline.github.com/poikilotherm/2020
20:44	pdurbin	very cool
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