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Comment ugly query

Adam Ierymenko 6 years ago
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      controller/PostgreSQL.cpp

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controller/PostgreSQL.cpp

@@ -1082,6 +1082,12 @@ void PostgreSQL::commitThread()
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 					};
 
+					// This ugly query exists because when we want to mirror networks to/from
+					// another data store (e.g. FileDB or LFDB) it is possible to get a network
+					// that doesn't exist in Central's database. This does an upsert and sets
+					// the owner_id to the "first" global admin in the user DB if the record
+					// did not previously exist. If the record already exists owner_id is left
+					// unchanged, so owner_id should be left out of the update clause.
 					PGresult *res = PQexecParams(conn,
 						"INSERT INTO ztc_network (id, creation_time, owner_id, controller_id, capabilities, enable_broadcast, "
 						"last_modified, mtu, multicast_limit, name, private, "