2009/3/26 Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Platonides
<Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Changing the rev_user_text but not rev_user would
work for most uses
(but merging of anonymous users).
Those columns are supposed to be *consistent*. Deliberately making
them inconsistent would be a really bad idea. (Although
Special:Import often already does . . .)
I agree. If you were going to do that you would need to go through
every line of code to find anywhere where someone had assumed they
were consistent (which could be a lot of places - it's a safe
assumption, so why not make it?) and thus written code that would now
be broken.