Re: Two kinds of IDs in the Database?

Darin Adler (darin nospam at bentspoon.com)
Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:53:49 -0700

>Is it possible that the CD entries with old-style (MD5
>based) ID calculation were not subject of a migration to
>the new-style (SHA1 based) ID?

I'm pretty sure that entries in the database have both styles of IDs. A
single entry can have multiple IDs.

When entering a "new" CD, you can connect a new ID to an already-entered
CD by choosing with radio buttons in the web browser.

>For debugging purposes it would be helpful, if it was
>possible to display the ID of an stored entry, maybe date
>of entry too.

The XML version of CD data includes all the IDs for that entry.

-- Darin