[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

2013-03-16 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 Bartosz DziewoƄski changed: What|Removed |Added CC||matma@gmail.com,

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

2012-05-16 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 Sam Reed (reedy) changed: What|Removed |Added Depends on||36912 -- Configure bugmail: https:

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

2011-08-13 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 Mark A. Hershberger changed: What|Removed |Added AssignedTo|roan.katt...@gmail.com |wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

2011-06-14 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 --- Comment #11 from Roan Kattouw 2011-06-14 18:32:59 UTC --- (In reply to comment #10) > Isn't there even an SQL command to return just the length of the matched set > instead of the items themselves? Yes. It's COUNT(*) > Of course Roans exp

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

2011-06-14 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 Bergi changed: What|Removed |Added CC||a.d.be...@web.de --- Comment #10 from Bergi 2

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

2010-11-27 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 --- Comment #9 from Reedy 2010-11-27 22:48:51 UTC --- It's still useful, ish. The use case was for the damn stupid "A page is an orhpan, if it has less than X incoming links".. And other such stupid responses. Technically, the point of the re

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

2010-11-27 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 --- Comment #8 from Bryan Tong Minh 2010-11-27 18:39:47 UTC --- This can only be implemented as returning "x" where x is a specific number or something that indicates "more than y". Would such a feature still be useful or close as WONTFIX? --

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

2009-09-05 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 --- Comment #7 from Roan Kattouw 2009-09-05 13:01:43 UTC --- (In reply to comment #6) > So can you explain how it does work? Is the list of backlinks maintained > explicitly in some table? Or does the software compile the list each time,

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

2009-09-05 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 --- Comment #6 from Le Chat 2009-09-05 12:53:41 UTC --- So can you explain how it does work? Is the list of backlinks maintained explicitly in some table? Or does the software compile the list each time, by looking through the table of for

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

2009-09-05 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 --- Comment #5 from Roan Kattouw 2009-09-05 09:24:10 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) > This would indeed be useful. Primarily in cases where the size of the result > set is greater than the limit for a single query (for example, you want

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

2009-09-05 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 --- Comment #4 from Le Chat 2009-09-05 09:15:27 UTC --- This would indeed be useful. Primarily in cases where the size of the result set is greater than the limit for a single query (for example, you want to know how many backlinks there a

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

2009-09-04 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 Roan Kattouw changed: What|Removed |Added CC||cat...@vp.pl --- Comment #3 from Ro

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

2009-03-16 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 Reedy changed: What|Removed |Added Summary|Have result list count |Option on API lists to only