Jochen Magnus wrote:
Brion,
the latest XML dumps seems to be fine. I tested the de dump from 2005-10-20: No problems while importing it into MySQL and indexing it with ioda.
Yay, something worked! ;)
I forgot to include the detail in my prior message, that some of the older dumps may contain duplicate page titles due to the existence of old non-normalized Unicode titles in the databases; that can lead to 'existing key' errors on the unique title indexes when importing with mwdumper.
Those have been purged, and so it shouldn't happen anymore.
I am interested in details of failure reports with importDump.php; the prior memory leaks with 1.5 prereleases should be fixed as of 1.5.0 but there might be intermittent or specific problems. Unfortunately importDump is relatively slow because it works page-by-page (mwdumper does faster bulk imports, assuming a blank slate empty database to start with) so it takes a while to test or confirm failures. :)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)