On 11/25/12 22:16, vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote:
> Also, I want to ask you and other developers about the idea of packing
> export XML file along with all exported uploads to ZIP archive (instead
> of putting them to XML in base64) - what do you think about it? We use
> it in our Mediawiki installation
Page history structure isn't quite immutable; revisions may be added
or
deleted, pages may be renamed, etc etc.
Shelling out to an external process means when that process dies due
to a
dead database connection etc, we can restart it cleanly.
Brion, thanks for clarifying it.
Also, I want to
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:31 PM, wrote:
> Oh, thanks, now I understand!
> But the revisions are also immutable - isn't it simpler just to select
> maximum revision ID in the beginning of dump and just discard newer page
> and image revisions during dump generation?
>
Page history structure isn'
Brion Vibber wrote 2012-11-21 23:20:
While generating a full dump, we're holding the database connection
open for a long, long time. Hours, days, or weeks in the case of
English Wikipedia.
There's two issues with this:
* the DB server needs to maintain a consistent snapshot of data since
wh
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:54 AM, wrote:
> Hello!
>
> While working on my improvements to MediaWiki Import&Export, I've
> discovered a feature that is totally new for me: 2-phase backup dump. I.e.
> the first pass dumper creates XML file without page texts, and the second
> pass dumper adds page t
On 11/21/12 1:54 PM, vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote:
While working on my improvements to MediaWiki Import&Export, I've
discovered a feature that is totally new for me: 2-phase backup dump.
I.e. the first pass dumper creates XML file without page texts, and
the second pass dumper adds page texts.
I
Hello!
While working on my improvements to MediaWiki Import&Export, I've
discovered a feature that is totally new for me: 2-phase backup dump.
I.e. the first pass dumper creates XML file without page texts, and the
second pass dumper adds page texts.
I have several questions about it - what
