On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19/04/12 11:11, Petr Bena wrote: >> That seems to be a lot of work which isn't needed. If we just prefixed >> the tables we wouldn't need to make a list of names which are already >> taken, because they would never conflict > > Some db engines have limitations in the number of characters of table > names. I think Oracle was the worst offender, with a 30 character limit. > It's preferable to have a table named "lst_sections" than > "LabeledSectionTransclusion_sec" (hitting the length limit). Plus, we > should also keep some space for a possible $wgDBPrefix. > > It may be interesting to store the tables used in $wgExtensionCredits, > though. >
Please, let's not pollute $wgExtensionCredits with this. When we overhaul extension installation/management, extensions should register these sorts of things there. For now...is this an active problem, or are we just looking for one? -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
