jidanni(a)jidanni.org schreef:
>>>> "ND" == Nicolas Dumazet <nicdumz(a)gmail.com> writes:
ND> There's no efficient way to write such a SQL query.
First I admit I don't even know how to spell "SQL", but
working on how to export all or several namespaces with one
API query, wouldn't
SELECT page_id FROM page; or
SELECT page_id FROM page WHERE page_namespace IN (1,2,3);
be efficient at the core of generators?
Yes, they'd work, but would be of
extremely limited use since adding
pretty much any other condition results in an inefficient query. In
practice, that would mean that multiple values for apnamespace would
disable pretty much all other ap* parameters. I recall explaining
earlier on this list that that'd mean too much complex logic for such
minimal gain.
Ordering isn't important for our exports.
They would be called by something like
$ GET api.php?...&xxexport&xxexportns=all #or 1,2,3 > file.sql
Export doesn't generate lists of pages itself, but relies on allpages to
do that, so a parameter like exportns doesn't make sense considering the
way things currently work.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)