On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Christensen, Courtney <[email protected]> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > Given that the current dump process is having problem, why not provide > a simple fix such as providing raw table format , SQL files or even > CSV files?
> Howard, > > Can't you get the SQL files from running mysqldump from the command line? > Why does something new need to be created? I hope I'm not being dense, but I > don't understand what new niche you are asking to fill. Because the data (text) isn't in a single database, even for a single project, it is spread across a large number of machines. It's also in a mixture of bizarre internal formats. The file format it pretty much irrelevant to the 'cost' of producing a dump. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
