Aryeh Gregor schrieb:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Daniel Kinzler<[email protected]> wrote:
>> As to disabling on Wikimedia projects: this would make things easier for the
>> toolserver mainly. We don't need this info there, and having it might
>> conceivably make WMDE the target of legal action. We can easily exclude
>> cu_changes from replication, but we can't easily filter rc_ip from
>> recentchanges. So it would be better if it wasn't there in the first place.
> 
> We could create a trigger to stop rc_ip from being populated, or maybe
> something fancy with inserting into views.  Or even change rc_ip to a
> CHAR(0) or something so MySQL silently truncates the insert value.

Hehe, nice hack :) But tricky when new databases get added.

Naw, in the end, I want to get  rid of the entries in recentchanges alltogether.
One clean solution would to simply say that retroactive autoblocks become tied
to checkuser functionality. But I suppose that, too, is a bit awkward.

-- daniel

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