On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:31 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, thanks, now I understand! > But the revisions are also immutable - isn't it simpler just to select > maximum revision ID in the beginning of dump and just discard newer page > and image revisions during dump generation? >
Page history structure isn't quite immutable; revisions may be added or deleted, pages may be renamed, etc etc. > Also, I have the same question about 'spawn' feature of backupTextPass.inc > :) what is it intended for? :) Shelling out to an external process means when that process dies due to a dead database connection etc, we can restart it cleanly. -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
