THANKS. MAY NOW BE NOT MUCH CONCERNED.
YOURS,
DANIEL RAY
DANIELRAY(a)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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