On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Robert Ullmann <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip>
> I suggest the history be partitioned into "blocks" by *revision ID*
>
> Like this: revision IDs (0)-999,999 go in "block 0", 1M to 2M-1 in
> "block 1", and so on. The English Wiktionary at the moment would have
> 7 blocks; the English Wikipedia would have 273.
<snip>

Though there are arguments in favor of this, I think they are
outweighed by the fact that one would need to go through every block
in order to reconstruct the history of even a single page.  In my
opinion partitioning on page id is a much better idea since it would
keep each page's history in a single place.

-Robert Rohde

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