Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:26 PM, O. O. <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think this might mean that there are entries in the Redirect Table >> where the rd_from does not correspond to a valid page_id in the Page >> Table? I don’t know what these would be used for though. > > They're probably just wrong. The page may have been deleted and the > redirect entry not, for some reason. This sort of thing happens with > denormalized data. *In theory* everything is in transactions, so it > shouldn't happen, except when they aren't and so it does, or they are > and it still does somehow.
Thanks Aryeh for the explanations. Now it makes sense i.e. I should take these numbers with a pinch of salt, because there might be errors in the Wikipedia Database itself :) . O. O. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
