On Jan 16, 2004, at 20:40, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
For the moment, my idea is: the user should be allowed to fetch his list once a day.
What's been hacked in for now is that a fetched watchlist will be cached for an hour, so someone clicking the button over and over won't load things down. The limits can be adjusted here and there if necessary.
If that's still to expensive simplify the layout or contents of the watchlist - don't generate diff and version links (I am able to do the diff locally).
I'm not sure I understand what you mean; generating diff links is a simple string concatenation and doesn't involve the database.
And switch to PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL obeys the SQL standard much better and thus it is more likely to attract SQL developers
I'd like to assume this statement is backed up with a plan to adapt MediaWiki to work with PostgreSQL and demonstrate superior performance with benchmarks. We're all in favor of choice here and would like MediaWiki to be more generalized, but PostgreSQL advocacy here has a history of being a lot of bluster followed by no action.
Unless someone would like to lend the benefit of their experience in getting the code set up and actually demonstrate something, it's just not going to happen; code doesn't write itself.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)