SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The directive disables automatic export of internal database formats (SQL and LDAP) back to the text source files.

Invocations of [backup-database] are not affected by this setting, and [export] can force the export by specifying force=1.

DIRECTIVE TYPE AND DEFAULT VALUE

Catalog directive

EXAMPLES

NoExportExternal yes

NOTES

For an introduction to "exporting" and the times it can occur, see database glossary entry and the NoExport configuration directive.

AVAILABILITY

NoExportExternal is available in Interchange versions:

4.6.0-5.9.0 (git-head)

SOURCE

Interchange 5.9.0:

['NoExportExternal', 'yesno',       'no'],

sub parse_yesno {
my($var, $value) = @_;
$_ = $value;
if (m/^y/i || m/^t/i || m/^1/ || m/^on/i) {
  return 1;
}
elsif (m/^n/i || m/^f/i || m/^0/ || m/^of/i) {
  return 0;
}
else {
  config_error("Use 'yes' or 'no' for the $var directive\n");
}
}

AUTHORS

Jon Jensen and Mark Johnson

SEE ALSO

NoImport(7ic), NoImportExternal(7ic), NoExport(7ic)