On 11/22/06, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
It's just that there's no edit count stored directly in the database at present (at least not that I can see in a quick glance at the schema). You have to do a count, which is O(N). An edit count could be added, presumably, if it were deemed useful, but I'm not the person to ask about whether that would slow things down or not, or otherwise be deemed undesirable.
Yeah. It would apparently have some use, if people keep making requests for things which rely on it. Well, let's do this officially, anyway:
Brion, may we please have an edit count field?
Steve