[mythtv-users] Must mythbackend be running when executing optimize_mythdb.pl and/or mythlink.pl?

    > Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:05:16 -0400
    > From: "Michael T. Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

    > Also, the only reason we don't automatically run optimize_mythdb.pl type 
    > functionality (repair/analyze/optimize)--we already have code in MythTV 
    > to do it all--is because if it were being run and the MySQL server 
    > crashes (mysqld crash/power outage/full file system/...) during a table 
    > repair, it's critical that a repair is run, again, after restarting the 
    > server and before any client attempts to read any data from the table 
    > that was being repaired--otherwise, you could lose all of the data in 
    > the table.

That's some gotcha.  Is this documented anywhere?  Can a query,
even of a damaged table, result in a write?

[I've been lucky enough never see a crash -during- a table repair,
in or out of Myth.]
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