The limit exists because deleting a page requires copying all of its
revisions from the 'revision' table to the 'archive' table. I imagine it
was a simple practical solution in 2003.
There's some discussion of the problem and links to other relevant bug
reports at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T20493 .
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Bartosz Dziewoński
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