Megatest

      (if (common:low-noise-print 30 "sync new to old")
          (if sync-needed
              (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "Sync of " res " records from newdb to olddb completed in " sync-time " seconds pid="(current-process-id))
              (debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "No sync needed, last updated " (- start-time last-update) " seconds ago")))
      res))

;; keeping it around for debugging purposes only
#;(define (open-run-close-no-exception-handling  proc idb . params)
  (debug:print-info 11 *default-log-port* "open-run-close-no-exception-handling START given a db=" (if idb "yes " "no ") ", params=" params)
  (print "I don't work anymore. open-run-close-no-exception-handling needs fixing or removing...")
  (exit)
  (if (or *db-write-access*
	  (not #t)) ;; was: (member proc * db:all-write-procs *)))
      (let* ((db (cond
		  ((pair? idb)                 (db:dbdat-get-db idb))
		  ((sqlite3:database? idb)     idb)
		  ((not idb)                   (debug:print-error 0 *default-log-port* "cannot open-run-close with #f anymore"))
		  ((procedure? idb)            (idb))
		  (else   	               (debug:print-error 0 *default-log-port* "cannot open-run-close with #f anymore"))))
	     (res #f))
	(set! res (apply proc db params))
	(if (not idb)(sqlite3:finalize! dbstruct))
	(debug:print-info 11 *default-log-port* "open-run-close-no-exception-handling END" )
	res)
      #f))

#;(define (open-run-close-exception-handling proc idb . params)
  (handle-exceptions
   exn
   (let ((sleep-time (random 30))
	 (err-status ((condition-property-accessor 'sqlite3 'status #f) exn)))
     (case err-status
       ((busy)
	(thread-sleep! sleep-time))
       (else
	(debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "EXCEPTION: database probably overloaded or unreadable.")
	(debug:print 0 *default-log-port* " message: " ((condition-property-accessor 'exn 'message) exn))
	(debug:print 5 *default-log-port* "exn=" (condition->list exn))
	(debug:print 0 *default-log-port* " status:  " ((condition-property-accessor 'sqlite3 'status) exn))
	(print-call-chain (current-error-port))
	(thread-sleep! sleep-time)
	(debug:print-info 0 *default-log-port* "trying db call one more time....this may never recover, if necessary kill process " (current-process-id) " on host " (get-host-name) " to clean up")))
     (apply open-run-close-exception-handling proc idb params))
   (apply open-run-close-no-exception-handling proc idb params)))

;; (define open-run-close 
#;(define open-run-close open-run-close-exception-handling)
		;;	   open-run-close-no-exception-handling
;;			   open-run-close-exception-handling)
;;)

(define (db:initialize-main-db dbdat)
  (when (not *configinfo*)
           (launch:setup)) ;; added because Elena was getting stack dump because *configinfo* below was #f.

     (lambda (id)
       (set! res id))
     db
     "SELECT id FROM archive_blocks WHERE archive_disk_id=? AND disk_path=?;"
     bdisk-id archive-path)
    (if res ;; record exists, update du if applicable and return res
	(begin
	  (if du (sqlite3:execute db "UPDATE archive_blocks SET last_du=?,last_du_time=(strftime('%s','now'))
                                          WHERE archive_disk_id=? AND disk_path=?;"
				   bdisk-id archive-path du))
	  res)
	(begin
	  (sqlite3:execute db "INSERT OR REPLACE INTO archive_blocks (archive_disk_id,disk_path,last_du)
                                                        VALUES (?,?,?);"
			   bdisk-id archive-path (or du 0))