Am 10.12.2011 20:52, schrieb Jeremy Baron: > Is it sufficient to receive the XML on stdin or do you need to be able to > seek? > > It is trivial to give you XML on stdin e.g. > $< path/to/bz2 bzip2 -d | perl script.pl
Hmm, the stdin is possible, but I think this will need many memory of RAM on the server. I think this is no option for the future. Every language grows every day and the dumps will also grow. The next problem is the parallel use of a compressed file. If more user use this compressed file like your idea, then bzip2 will crash the server IMHO. I think it is no problem to store the uncompressed XML files for an easy usage. We should make rules, where they have to stay and how long or we need a list, where every user can say "I need only the two newest dumps of enwiki, dewiki,...". If a dump is not needed, then we can delete this file. Stefan (sk) _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
