Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
For what it's worth, if you use MediaWiki with a Postgres database, dates *are* stored as true timestamp fields. The only big problem I found when converting them over was with the archive table, which still needs to at least emulate a char(14) due to the URLs generated within the code.
Er... no?
If it looks like it does, that's a bug in Special:Undelete and should be fixed.
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