On 27/05/05, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com>
wrote:
This
would also be more flexible because if data needs to be transferred to
another server there is no need to update all rows in the revision
table.
You've got to update it *somewhere*.
Updating $serverurl or similar in a PHP file is easier than using
str_replace or similar for every entry of your revision table to
change the URL from the old to the new one.
The opposite is actually true.
If you have a global setting that controls where you look, you have to
migrate everything in one chunk. That means a lot of downtime
(copying... copying... copying...), which helps nobody and gives you NO
flexibility in paritioning or migrating data smoothly.
-- brion vibber (brion @