On 11/07/07, Hiram Clawson hiram@soe.ucsc.edu wrote:
So is setting wgReadOnly to some string all that is necessary to safely upgrade ? I guess this stops all db access ?
It will theoretically stop MediaWiki performing any writes to the database. While this is probably pretty safe, if you want to completely halt operations, then you need to temporarily revoke the MySQL user's permissions.
Is this what is done at WikiPedia ?
No.
Rob Church