On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 04:18:39PM -0800, Toby Bartels wrote:
SQL is very useful, especially if search is off or you're searching for spelling-mistakes or HTML-tables. But SQL-Queries can cause heavy load for the server, so it would also be good to seperate sysop and sql-rights and make them depending of the user's knowledge.
That is a fair point, although it doesn't mean that we need to separate things in the MediaWiki code. Since I don't know SQL enough to use it, I don't run any SQL queries; there's no need to take SQL rights away. If another sysop only wants to run SQL queries, but not get involved in deletions or IP blocks, then that's OK too.
I agree. If someone is given sysop powers it means that we trust them to know what they don't know :)
Arvind