On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote: > In the next few days, I will be adding a new index to the globalimagelinks > table > in the commonswiki database. creating this index will take a couple of hours, > and the table will be locked during that time. This also means that > replication > of the commonswiki database will stop for the time it takes to create the > index, > and may take some time to catch up again after is is finished.
Since it's InnoDB, it should still be readable even if an index is being added; only changes to the table should be blocked, no? Replication will stop, but reads should continue to work fine. _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
