"Erik Moeller" erik_moeller@gmx.de schrieb:
The MediaWiki FT search has locking issues. It's very fast for a normal wiki, but for a huge one like Wikipedia it tends to get in a deadlock state. That's why we have to disable it on Wikipedia. Some other queries could also be made faster. Many of our queries have been optimized now and every single one should eventually return results with a response time of milliseconds.
Does this mean that we will NOT get full text search back soon? That would be a shame. If it is indeed the case that with another DB server we will still have locking problems with searches, we might want another architecture, with a dedicated search (plus several other functions, such as special pages and SQL queries, perhaps even Whatlinkshere) machine, which gets its database updated only once per second/minute/hour/whatever rather than in real time.
Andre Engels