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Roan Kattouw wrote:
:O This is even crazier than r33375 (no insult to either committer): we have a redirect table to fetch redirect targets efficiently,
No, we have it to make bulk queries efficient.
and we're not actually *using* it anywhere.
...except in all the bulk queries it was designed for...
Bugs 13752 and 13754 should be fixable without reverting to the old (and inefficient) behavior (possibly with a schema change to the redirect table, as I suggested in response to r33375).
...which would require adding interwiki and fragment field and god knows what else, and wouldn't actually make much of anything relevant more efficient, since individual lookups are fairly cheap.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)