Jack Phoenix wrote: > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Jeroen De Dauw<[email protected]>wrote: > >>> $sqlx = substr( $commentedSql, 0, 500 ); >> >> What's the reason for this line? Why truncate after 500 chars?
Probably to avoid storing several megabytes inside the sql dump when people save articles. > Now that's a good question! I did some digging and finally found the > revision in which that line was added: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/1914 by Tim, dating > back to November 2003. Tim might know why that limitation is there, although > the code is ooooooold -- I don't think anyone has objections to making the > limit configurable at least (but correct me if I'm wrong). I think the real source is r1834 http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/stable/phase3/includes/DatabaseFunctions.php?r1=1728&r2=1834 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
