Re: [Gnumed-devel] Country zones and i18n

[Busser, Jim]

On 2011-11-14, at 2:36 PM, Jim Busser wrote:

> 2) following the recreation of Canadian provinces I issued
> 
>       select dem.gm_upd_default_states();

Trying to understand why / when this function is used…

What it appears to do is to try to ensure that in the event that where the table

        dem.state

did not already otherwise contain -- for each country -- a state with 
abbreviation (code) and name

        ??
        state/territory/province/region not available

then this function, when called, will ensure that such 'placeholder' '??' 
states get created. However there seems little point to use / call it except:


1) when the function was (originally) first being implemented

2) after adding/ creating one or more new countries (having new country codes) 
or

3) after deleting any states (in case any of the deletions included a state of 
code '??')

and therefore after I went and deleted entire sets of states would be the time 
to call that function… is this correct?

-- Jim