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
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 installations
Hello!
While working on my improvements to MediaWiki ImportExport, 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
On 11/21/12 1:54 PM, vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote:
While working on my improvements to MediaWiki ImportExport, 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
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:54 AM, vita...@yourcmc.ru wrote:
Hello!
While working on my improvements to MediaWiki ImportExport, 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
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
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:31 PM, vita...@yourcmc.ru 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
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