Will anything bad happen if entries in the MediaWiki "logging" table are not
inserted in chronological order?
Due to a bug, our logging table has incomplete data. I'd like to insert the missing
data using a script.
However, the log_id column is auto-increment. This means that when the table is ordered by
log_id,
the data will not be in chronological order by log_timestamp.
Is that bad in any way?
Or are all applications (like Special:Log) expected to "order by log_timestamp"
rather than log_id?
Thanks,
Dan
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