Normal editing won’t cause issues. But a delete /move/restore history merge
can cause things to look out of order if you are using child/parent
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 8:52 PM Christopher Wolfram
wrote:
> Thanks Ariel.
>
> So the revisions are in order of revision id which are assigned
>
Thanks Ariel.
So the revisions are in order of revision id which are assigned sequentially,
which means that the revisions are in chronological order. Are there
situations, however, where the parent id gives a history that isn’t
chronological? That is, is there a continuous chain of edits from
The queries to get page and revision metadata are ordered by page id, and
within each page, by revision id. This is guaranteed.
The behavior of rev_parent_id is not guaranteed however, in certain edge
cases. See e.g. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193211
Anyone who uses this field care to
Hi,
Perhaps there is documentation about this, but I have looked for the past hour
and haven’t found anything.
I was wondering if it is guaranteed that all revisions given in the
enwiki-latest-pages-meta-history files are in order of
parent->child->grandchild->… In a few examples, it looks
