Trying to keep [[en:Wikipedia:Protected pages]] up-to-date, I want to run
the SQL query
SELECT cur_namespace,cur_title FROM cur WHERE cur_restrictions="sysop"
However, this gets hit by the 30 seconds limit, even with a LIMIT as low as 30.
Which I find strange as it seems to be a rather simple search, not more or
less complicated than, say:
SELECT cur_namespace,cur_title FROM cur WHERE cur_namespace=9
for which the complete results (ca. 50 items) appear 1 second or so.
Is cur_restrictions for some reason so very hard to reach? And if so, why is
it, and what can be done about it?
Andre Engels