Comment 3 for bug 909708

Option 3 makes most sense but IMHO it would be good to inform the developer
of the error

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Siegfried Gevatter <email address hidden>wrote:

> Options:
>
> 1. Add a check to see if there are any duplicate subjects. If so, rollback
> all insertions done to that point and throw an exception.
> 2. Just ignore the second and later subjects with the same URI and keep
> going.
> 3. DELETE what was inserted of that particular event and return 0 for it
> (but insert all other events).
>
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> Title:
> Inserting event with two subjects with the same URI breaks the
> following event
>
> Status in Zeitgeist Framework:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> By the way our database is structured, all subjects of a same event
> must have different URIs.
>
> However, this isn't currently being checked, with the effect that the
> first subject is inserted correctly, while the second subject triggers
> the "existing event" exception and rolls back the event ID. This has
> the effect that the next event to be inserted will incorrectly have
> the same event ID (thus its subjects are mixed into whatever got saved
> of the first event and all sorts of weirdness :P).
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