[Bucardo-general] not reliable RESULTS with 'bucardo status' and 'bucardo kick'

[David E. Wheeler]

On Nov 12, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Markova, Nina <Nina.Markova at NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca> wrote:

> Hi David,
> 
> I found that the sync is not active for other reasons: Mismatch schema in source and target database - columns with NULL/DEFAULT  value.
> MCP marks it as inactive and the validation FAILED.  
> So, it looks like it is not 'bucardo deactivate' -> 'bucardo activate' issue. 
> But I still expect to see if validation of the sync is failing or not - that would safe me some digging through the logs. 
> 
> Have you or anyone else experienced that? I am running bicardo 4.99.8 github version from Oct 31 2013

Sure have.

  https://github.com/bucardo/bucardo/issues/65

The validation that the MCP does is pretty comprehensive; I just wish it was more informative when there was a problem. I updated `bucardo validate` to be better about reporting errors, but the more comprehensive validation done by MCP is just totally silent. Drives me nuts.

> *** Somehow bucardo commands doesn't catch that and doesn't report it  properly.  ***  Bug?

Mis-feature, anyway. Someone needs to do the work to merge the two validates so they are the same, and then to make sure that both are noisy in the terminal. That task, unfortunately, cannot be done with the limited time I currently have to hack on Bucardo. Volunteers greatly welcome!

Best,

David