On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:27 AM, K. Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:

> Platonides <Platonides <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Do doing things the slow way:
> > mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM revision;
> > | 416988781 |
>
> Thanks, this is quite close to the result from September 1st ( 412,482,641
> ). I
> assume that the contents of the "revision" table go into the
> pages-meta-history
> dumps..? And I reckon that there is no safe method to verify the result,
> though.
>

The pages-meta-history dump (with text) is produced from the
pages-meta-history _stub_ dump, which is basically just a thin XML shell
around a big query to the database on the 'page' and 'revision' tables.

In theory, anything missing from the stub dump should be something that's
not properly recorded at all -- for instance a revision that is not attached
to a live page. This isn't supposed to happen but there probably are a few
stray ones in the database. :)

-- brion
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