On 4/26/05, Kevin Carillo kd_caril@jmsb.concordia.ca wrote:
I have first downloaded all the dump files (exported on April 21st) and then concatenated them (cat ...).The concatenation of the dump files (english version of Wikipedia) has ended up with a file of around 31 gigabytes Apparently, the compression format has changed for bzip2 does not recognize the resulting file as a bz2 one but gunzip is able to uncompress the file (by naming the compressed file old_table.sql.gz).
Has the compression format been officially changed ?
Yes. It was bz2 until very recently, when it was changed to .gz
So clearly you've been unduly confused by an old instruction page - was it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_dump_import_problems or something else (either way, we'll need to change it)