On Nov 3, 2004, at 5:53 AM, xmlizer wrote:
May be the question has already been raised, but when do wikimedia start to migrate to 4.1 ?
Currently MediaWiki doesn't take advantage of any of MySQL's new features, so there's no benefit from the risk of an upgrade.
Support for things like collations could be helpful (for sorting articles in a language-specific way), but afaik nobody's yet had the opportunity to look into it and see: a) if it will actually do what we want b) if we can enable it without a lot of changes c) if it will require significant downtime for index rebuilding
Further, it would be nice to have this ability on wikis running on older versions of MySQL, so we might do a different, compatible sorting implementation anyway.
The one thing we do know is that we've had reports of 'index too long' errors when using a utf-8 collation mode.
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