[Mediawiki-l] $wgshareddb

[Leonard Burton]

Greetings,

I made a slight modification to the Database.php [starting at line
1004] file in the wikis I run.  Should this be included in the next
Mediawiki release?

        function tableName( $name ) {
                global $wgSharedDB;

                # Skip quoted literals
                if ( $name{0} != '`' ) {
                        if ( $this->mTablePrefix !== '' &&  strpos(
'.', $name ) === false ) {
                                $name = "{$this->mTablePrefix}$name";
                        }
                        if ( isset( $wgSharedDB ) &&
("{$this->mTablePrefix}user" == $name ) or
("{$this->mTablePrefix}interwiki" == $name)) {
                                $name = "`$wgSharedDB`.`$name`";
                        } else {
                                # Standard quoting
                                $name = "`$name`";
                        }
                }
                return $name;
        }

My reasoning for doing this is that if someone is using the same user
table then most likely would like to use a common interwiki table. 
That was my use.

What do you all think? 


-- 
Leonard Burton, N9URK
leonardburton at gmail.com