Russell Blau <russblau <at> hotmail.com> writes:
FWIW, I'll add my vote for aborting the current dump *now* if we don't expect it ever to actually be finished, so we can at least get a fresh dump of the current pages.
I'd like to third/fourth/(other ordinal) this idea too. I've been using the (in comparison tiny) SQL dumps for various purposes, and it's most vexing that these have to wait until the end (or lack of any end...) of the larger XML dumps. (The same data is replicated on the toolserver, of course, but I'd get beaten to death if I tried to run some of the data collection scripts I've been running offline, there.)
Cheers, Alai.