Hi!
Other technical solutions can be found for keeping
content apart when
needed (e.g., separate dumps by entity types).
It's not only dumps, it's also searches, APIs, special pages, etc. Of
course, everything can be solved with enough time and coding, but to me
it looks like running a DB server with only one database and only one
table - why not use separation that already comes for free with another
instance? We still can reuse any code we like.
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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org