On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:31 PM, <vitalif(a)yourcmc.ru> wrote:
Oh, thanks, now I understand!
But the revisions are also immutable - isn't it simpler just to select
maximum revision ID in the beginning of dump and just discard newer page
and image revisions during dump generation?
Page history structure isn't quite immutable; revisions may be added or
deleted, pages may be renamed, etc etc.
Also, I have the same question about 'spawn'
feature of backupTextPass.inc
:) what is it intended for? :)
Shelling out to an external process means when that process dies due to a
dead database connection etc, we can restart it cleanly.
-- brion