Re: [Wikitech-l] On good faith: why don't we use mysqldump?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Felipe Ortega wrote: 1) The format is relatively stable, unlike our database schema. 2) Our databases are spread over dozens of servers, in mixes of internal binary compression formats whose interpretation is dependent on our configuration and custom code. 3) Our internal databases mix public and private information, which we have to separate for external dumps. Thus only completely public tables are dumped with mysqldump. Thus, we use a stable, safe data schema for public page dumps. Dumping raw SQL of these tables would be unstable, insecure, and useless for most people. - -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)