[mythtv-users] Duplicate recordings because of bad SD data?

[f-myth-users at media.mit.edu]

    > Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:15:05 -0500
    > From: Robert Eden <rmeden at yahoo.com>

    > On 8/17/2010 6:14 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
    > > P.S.  TMS policy:  If they ever air something with totally bogus
    > > programid's (because they thought that an episode wasn't a repeat
    > > when it actually was), will they -ever- reuse that programid on
    > > the -correct- episode when -that- airs?  Or are they guaranteed
    > > to always gensym a new one, even if that means that there will
    > > be programid's in their database that are bogus because they are
    > > spurious repeats of other episodes?

    > It's a safe bet TMS will never intentionally (mistakes happen!) re-use a 
    > program-id.  If one is assigned in error, that ID is effectively retired.

Excellent!  Then the upstream screwups shouldn't cause Myth to fail to
record something; redundant recording is a much softer failure mode.

Thanks again.