[asterisk-dev] cdr_addon_mysql - calldate and sock

[Niklas Larsson]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:11:27 -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Sunday 16 March 2008 15:44:05 Niklas Larsson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> sorry for the HTML post before, here is a proper post:
>>
>> there are two changes from 1.4 to 1.6 that are a bit irritating:
>>
>> 1. calldate is now start and you need to add [aliases]
>> start=calldate to make it work with the "normal" cdr db.
>>
>> 2. I need to specify a sock when the mysql server is on
>> localhost, it's not enough with: hostname = localhost
>>
>> My "new" conf:
>>
>> [global]
>> hostname = localhost
>> dbname = asteriskcdrdb
>> password = amp109
>> user = asteriskuser
>> userfield=1
>> ;port=3306
>> sock=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
>>
>> [aliases]
>> start=calldate
>>
>> Is there a good explanation to this changes?
>>
> Yes; you can now do three things you couldn't before:  1) You can
> rename columns, so that the CDR output matches your billing system,
> rather than forcing your billing system to accomodate your CDRs.
> 2) You can omit columns you really don't care about (amaflags, for
> example), and 3) you can add additional columns that you'd like to
> have in your CDR, simply by populating the corresponding CDR
> variable in the dialplan.

But why change the default calldate to start? Was it really needed to break backwards compatibility?

And why do i have to specify a socket for localhost? This was not needed in 1.4 - is that a bug?

/niklas