Order of pages/revisions - Xmldatadumps-l

2 Jul 2010

Hello folks,

I had some questions about the order or pages and revisions in the dump.
As I understand, the order is according to the respective IDs.  But
where do these IDs come from?  Are they the keys of the corresponding
table in the database?  So then they are more or less in order of
creation?  If that's the case, why does the dump begin with pages with
titles mostly beginning with "A"?

Thank you,
Chrisil