Petr, in Brad&#39;s example he used gaplimit=1, which meant he would get one page per result with many revisions.<div><br></div><div>This is no different than writing titles= or pageids=  with just one value.</div><div><br>

</div><div>So if instead of using generator, the client would make just one extra api request to get a list of 5000 pages, it will continue as before. Total extra cost -- +1 more request per 5000 for an rare edge case, while getting a major benefit for all other usage cases.</div>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Petr Onderka <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gsvick@gmail.com" target="_blank">gsvick@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div class="im">&gt; not 10x queries ---  one additional query per 5000+ requests, for an<br>
&gt; extremely edge case scenario you have given.<br>
<br>
</div>I believe what Brad is talking about is that when you use pageids (or titles),<br>
you are usually limited to 50 of them per query.<br>
But if you use generator, the limit is usually 500.<br>
Which means your approach would lead to 10× as many queries.<br>
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Petr Onderka<br>
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