THANKS. MAY NOW BE NOT MUCH CONCERNED.
YOURS, DANIEL RAY DANIELRAY@REDIFFMAIL.COM 27/06/05 MONDAY
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 Brion Vibber wrote :
"MacGyverMagic/Mgm" wrote:
Has anyone got a clue for how long the database will be locked for this update?
Some hours, don't know how long exactly. Probably less than a full day, but no guarantee. :)
All our other wikis remain open for editing in the meantime, so feel free to slake your wiki-thirst in Commons, Wiktionary, Wikinews, etc or Wikipedia in another language while en.wikipedia.org is locked.
Phil Boswell wrote:
Is this causing the strange doubling effect wherein the last edit is appearing twice at the top of each history page, and single-diffs are failing?
Yes. The old database schema stored the current revision and older revisions in separate databases. The new schema rearranges things so revision data is stored in one place more consistently.
The conversion works by first copying the current data in to where we had the old revisions, then breaking that off into the new text-storage, revision-metadata, and page tables.
So in the meantime if you look at history, you will see two copies of the current revision -- one in each table.
...and is it possible to make the notice announcing the upgrade a little larger?
I sailed into a correct without noticing the Site-Notice and was somewhat startled to face the "locked-out" version of the edit page.
I'll poke at it a bit...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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