[db-wg] creating a mntner

On 2003-12-22 06:10:32 -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
[...]
> > >     ***Error: Unknown object referenced
> > > 
> > 
> > This means an object mentioned in this object does not exist in your
> > database and ...
> > 
> > [...]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 	 up_interpret_ripudb_result: entered, ripupd_result [%ERROR 4
> > >     E[4][1:RB366]:ref integrity: reference cannot be resolved
> > 
> > ... it is RB366 that does not exist.
> 
> and, as maint-rgnet does not yet exist, how does one create the chicken
> before the egg?

An object can have a reference to itself, so that we don't have the
chicken-egg problem.  You can create your first mntner without
referential integrity problems (of course, you have to create the
person/role objects that are referenced from the mntner beforehand). 


> i.e., the docs are missing "how to load your first maintainer"
> 
> randy

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Engin Gunduz
RIPE NCC Software Engineering Department