naughty, naughty man! ;-)

another addition to make arnes sql to avoid race conditions work, apparently NULL is not less than 1 in mysql

changes to make the filling out the meta_coord.max_length column on the fly work

external db's for flybase added

Bit of structure; will probably have this in OpenOffice format in future since it's turning into quite a complicated document.

changes to ensembl code to handle disconnecting databases properly - disconnect_all, checking for reconnection when doing do and prepare and finishing statement handles in generic_fetch