[Mediawiki-l] Database Corruption

[Arthur Guy]

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>If a one-time event corrupted the files it's possible a REPAIR TABLE
>isn't quite doing enough. Try dumping and reloading the tables.

I am going to try a better repair this evening when I can shut down the
server. 
I just wanted to make sure the website couldn't be causing the problem; when
I repaired the database it seemed fine until I used the website.

Chris McIntosh
>I had this same problem that I posted to this list a couple weeks ago.
>What fixed it for me was dropping the whole table and recreating it as
>Brion suggested. Then run "rebuildtextindex.php" in your maintenence
>folder to recreate you index page, or if you just have a few pages you >can
do null edits on the pages to have the indexes rebuilt.

>Since I did that I haven't had the problem anymore.

How do these maintenance files work, do I just run the
"rebuildtextindex.php" in a browser, do I delete/drop the entire table
first.

Thanks
Arthur
 
arthur at astarsolutions.co.uk





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