[asterisk-users] Realtime Extensions -- Comments?

Jason Parker jparker at digium.com
Tue Aug 22 09:58:51 MST 2006


----- Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Parker [mailto:jparker at digium.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:57 AM
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Realtime Extensions -- Comments?
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
> > > The unofficial docs on the voip wiki for the realtime 
> > extensions table
> > > structure is:
> > > 
> > > CREATE TABLE `extensions_table` ( 
> > >  `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, 
> > >  `context` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '', 
> > >  `exten` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '', 
> > >  `priority` tinyint(4) NOT NULL default '0', 
> > >  `app` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '', 
> > >  `appdata` varchar(128) NOT NULL default '', 
> > >  PRIMARY KEY  (`context`,`exten`,`priority`), 
> > >  KEY `id` (`id`) 
> > > ) TYPE=MyISAM; 
> > > 
> > > Uhm... what abouts comments? What if I wanted to temporarily
> > > deactivate a couple of extensions? Without a comment flag, 
> > I'd have to
> > > completely remove those entries from the extensions table! 
> > That's not
> > > very friendly is it... Is there a better way?
> > > 
> > > Doug.
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> > I cheated, and just added a comments field to the table.  
> > Asterisk only reads fields by name, so extra columns don't 
> > hurt at all.
> 
> How did an extra field that Asterisk doesn't know anything about,
> change it's behaviour?
> 
> Doug.

I guess I misunderstood what you meant by comments.  It appeared to be two unrelated questions.

-- 
Jason Parker
Digium




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