Erik Moeller wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, I had disabled them already. Why were they re- enabled? Sysop SQL queries are a bad, bad idea until we have timeouts. Yes, openness is good, but wikis work because users cannot do any lasting damage. Open SQL queries without timeouts are like a wiki without a page history.
Yes, I agree.
Perhaps when we have the new cluster fully functional, and so long as we have extra 'horsepower' available, we can have a machine running as a 'hot spare' backup, not used for anything other than being a hot spare, and we can direct sysop sql queries there. If that backup machine is bogged down for awhile, it's probably no big deal.
--Jimbo