Hi Maarten,

Do note that a valid use case is to run pywikibot with a local
database dump (I haven't done this myself, but I know at least 1
person who does that), so the user needs to be able to configure this
field. The user variable seems like the way to go for me.

As to the default value, I suggest using the values from toollabs (you
know, with it being the future & all).

Strainu

2014-03-08 17:54 GMT+02:00 Maarten Dammers <maarten@mdammers.nl>:

> Hi,
>
> We currently have the "MySQLPageGenerator" to do database queries. It uses
> site.dbName() to figure out the name of the site, but we don't seem to have
> any system to figure out what database server to connect to. For example:
> * Dutch Wikipedia on Toolserver: connect nlwiki_p nlwiki-p.db
> * English Wikipedia on Toolserver: connect enwiki_p enwiki-p.db
> * Dutch Wikipedia on Toollabs: connect nlwiki_p nlwiki.labsdb
> * English Wikipedia on Toollabs: connect nlwiki_p nlwiki.labsdb
>
> How to solve this? Possible solution is to make a function to detect what
> cluster we're on or a user variable to set it (config.cluster?) and than add
> a function site.dbServer() to return the right server?
>
> Maarten
>
> [1]
> https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/pywikibot%2Fcore.git/d2ea22661b967774048bc7c6cc9360986ce5ffb7/pywikibot%2Fpagegenerators.py#L1220
>
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