[asterisk-users] Realtime Extensions -- Comments?

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----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.