Brion Vibber wrote:
> 2) Checksums would be of fairly obvious benefit to verifying text storage
> integrity within MediaWiki's own databases (though perhaps best sitting on
> or keyed to the text table...?) Default installs tend to use simple
> plain-text or gzipped storage, but big installs like Wikimedia's sites (and
> not necessarily just us!) optimize storage space by batch-compressing
> multiple text nodes into a local or remote blobs table.

I also considered the possibility of adding it on the text table. There 
it could go without a schema change, just as anoher field of the object.
But it's too risky. We have already corrupted objects in the past. And 
it wouldn't be a check as good as bein in revision (eg. suppose that 
text_ids were mismatched).


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