Hi all
apperently, we don't have up to date copied of the wikis on the asia cluster (Japanese, etc). It seems like some stale copied of those is replicated. The last change to the japanese wikipedia is from 2005-10-30 :(
this kind of sucks for stuff like checkusage - people are relying on up do date databases... Can this be fixed soon, by setting up direct replication from the asia cluster?
Regards, Daniel
Hi again
Yesterday, Kate told me that the problem with replication from the Asian cluster is that mysql can only connect to one replication master. I have googeled a bit, and it appears that that is not true (at least for MySQL 5.1): http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/replication-intro.html says:
Multiple-master replication is possible, but raises issues not present in single-master replication. See Section 6.15, “Auto-Increment in Multiple-Master Replication”.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/replication-auto-increment.html talks about problems with auto-increment keys, which should not affect us, since databases replicated from each master would be disjunct.
I have not dug deeper yet, but I'm probably not the best person to fiddle with that anyway.
I hope one of you can have a look at it - having no data from the Asian wikis on the toolserver is a serious problem.
Regards, Daniel
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