2010/6/14 Platonides Platonides@gmail.com:
I disagree. Most setups are not $wgConf. We shouldn't be adding a column for a database which only works for $wgConf.
Turns out I was mistaken: this is not driven by $wgConf, but by LoadBalancer_Multi, which can be configured through $wgLBFactoryConf [1]. Normally, configuring that would only really make sense in a $wgConf enviroment, but it doesn't depend on it AFAIK, and allows access to shared DBs and the like. $wgLBFactoryConf is way easier to set up than $wgConf, BTW.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)