[Wikipedia-l] Plans for RecentChanges page; programmers only!

[Brion L. VIBBER]

Jan Hidders wrote:

>Dear fellow programmers,
>
>I saw that the SQL code for the Recent Changes page is rather inefficient
>and causes a lot of database access, so I decided to improve this. However,
>I can only do this properly if the timestamp field in the tables is split in
>a day and a time field.
>
Can I ask how exactly that would help? I'm not much of a database guru, 
so the answer isn't obvious to me and I'm a bit curious.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)