"Dantman" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r108502. URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/108502#c29253
Commit summary for MediaWiki.r108502: Noticed looking at schema posted by Joerg in bug 33228 It seems many ancient tables (removed mainly in 1.4, and some in 1.6) Kill them with fire, if they've still got unmigrated data in or something, we've got bigger issues! Noticed "user_rights" table is not documented at Manual:Database_layout Dantman's comment: Is this really a good idea? I've always thought it was better to leave stray data we don't understand lying around in tables we don't touch than to assume we can simply delete it. ie: If it doesn't hurt MW's functioning then it's better if we leave the data alone so that there's a reference for manual migration if we're not going to migrate automatically. The only kind of table I think we should permit to be auto-deleted might be the tables we have that are essentially purely cache tables like objectcache or whatever it was and things like the links tables which simply reference data already in the database elsewhere. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-CodeReview mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-codereview
