[Mediawiki-l] Is there any reason to use a table name prefix if you don't have to?
Brion Vibber
brion at wikimedia.org
Wed Feb 6 22:16:43 UTC 2008
David A. Desrosiers wrote:
>> I would like to ask the philosophical question of whether using a
>> table prefix like "mw_" is of any use later? I have pretty much full
>> control of my box, can have as many MySQL databases as I like
>> (including dev, test and live ones).
>
> Currently all maintenance tasks are hard-coded with the standard table
> names. I've run into this and been bitten by it far too many times.
All the updaters run the raw SQL files through a filter to add the table
prefixes and table type options.
Unless you're manually running them, there's no need to edit anything.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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