https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25931

Tim Starling <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Tim Starling <[email protected]> 2011-03-24 03:48:12 
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(In reply to comment #5)
> The worst case scenario I could think of was:
> mysql> select page_title, page_namespace FROM page JOIN categorylinks ON
> (page_id=cl_from) AND cl_to='Living_people' and page_random>=0.999 limit 1;
> 1 row in set (0.15 sec)
> 
> That's not very fast, but it's much faster than I feared it would be.

The worst case is pretty realistic here, since there's not much point in
picking a random article from a small category. 

I'd like to hear what Domas thinks about it. What would happen if it was linked
to from every category page?

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