David A. Desrosiers wrote:
I would like to ask the philosophical question of whether using a table prefix like "mw_" is of any use later? I have pretty much full control of my box, can have as many MySQL databases as I like (including dev, test and live ones).
Currently all maintenance tasks are hard-coded with the standard table names. I've run into this and been bitten by it far too many times.
All the updaters run the raw SQL files through a filter to add the table prefixes and table type options.
Unless you're manually running them, there's no need to edit anything.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)