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> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Tim Landscheidt > <t...@tim-landscheidt.de>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> at the office hour yesterday >> (cf. >> http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/20130430.txt): >> >> | [...] >> | <Coren> multichill: The long story short; replicating >> | databases is happening soon (Within the month) >> | Replicating multiple copies of commons and wikidata >> | isn't going to happen that way; it needs to be built >> | into application logic or using federated tables. >> | Almost /all/ of the problems the TS have had with >> | replication were caused by that redundancy and >> | trying to keep it synced. >> | <multichill> Coren: So you're basically saying Toollabs is >> | useless for me >> | <Platonides> {{ref needed}} >> | <Coren> We're all more than happy to help you (and any other >> | maintainer) with adapting your tools to work in that >> | setup. >> | <scfc_de> Coren: In that case, Tools will not be able to >> | replace Toolserver. >> | <giftpfla1ze> what are federated tables btw? >> | <Ryan_Lane> AFAIK toolserver will also have this limitation >> | at some point >> | <scfc_de> Ryan_Lane: What do you mean? >> | [...] >> >> There were never answers to this, so I bring it up here >> again: >> >> 1. How were "almost /all/ of the problems the TS have had >> with replication" "caused by that redundancy and trying >> to keep it synced"? >> >> 2. What limitation will the Toolserver have at some point? >> >> > As to #2: From what I've been told this has to do with future sharding > plans for the databases, and due to a change in how we'll be doing > replication. Of course, I've heard this in passing. For answers to both of > these questions you'll need to talk to binasher and/or notpeter on IRC, as > they are the ones doing the database work. > > - Ryan > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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