2010/6/14 Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com>om>:
Note that you will still need all those pieces:
*The database name and wiki prefix.
*Server and port is desirable, since it may not always be on the same
database server as the wiki (in which case we could reuse the same slave
list).
*The server is mysql. Probably uncommon to have several wikis
communicated directly, on different kind of servers, but someone will
take use of it, and it'll be easy to add.
On a $wgConf setup like WMF's, which is what we're aiming at, all this
data is stored in $wgConf and the wiki ID can be fed into some
LoadBalancer function (don't remember its name offhand) to get a DB
connection. So you just need the wiki ID on these setups.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
I disagree. Most setups are not $wgConf. We shouldn't be adding a column
for a database which only works for $wgConf.