Lightning wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
If you mean, we could create a new_old table and make a mess of spaghetti code to check new_old and old_old and transfer articles' data one at a time while carefully locking another attempt to do the same, well hypothetically perhaps.
I was actually talking about the adding of an article_id field, that should be quite simple.
Simple, yes. But it would require putting the wiki in read only mode while the tables are rebuilt, which would take us offline for a full day.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)