[asterisk-users] Realtime Extensions -- Comments?

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy McNamara [mailto:jj at nufone.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:45 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Realtime Extensions -- Comments?
> 
> 
> Douglas Garstang wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> 
> Yes, DON'T USE REALTIME!

I wish it was that easy. We started looking at realtime again, because the option of building the config files with a script querying the database became daunting. 

It doesn't matter where you turn in Asterisk, there's gotcha's. For example, you can't put the hint stuff into realtime, and there's no inherint way to comment extensions. 

Doug.