Delete selected records from bety — cull_database

This is a fucntion that takes in a table of records and deletes everything in the file. Please do not run this function without 1) Backing Up Bety 2) Checking the the file only contains entries to be deleted.

For more information on how to use this function see the "Pre-release-database-cleanup" script in the 'vignettes' folder or look at the README

cull_database_entries(
  table = NULL,
  outdir,
  file_name = NULL,
  con,
  machine_id = NULL,
  table_name = NULL
)

Arguments

table: data frame containing records to be deleted. Specify either this or `file_name`
outdir: Directory from which the file will be read, and where the delete_log_FILE_NAME will be read to
file_name: The name of the file being read in. Specify either this or `table`
con: connection the the bety database
machine_id: Optional id of the machine that contains the bety entries.
table_name: database table from which to delete

Author

Tempest McCabe