On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Andrew Dunbar hippytrail@gmail.com wrote:
Yes I found how to get it through the API now. It was actually just the Toolserver database that was intractably slow.
There's nothing slow about the TS database here:
mysql> pager true PAGER set to 'true' mysql> SELECT tl_from FROM templatelinks WHERE tl_namespace=10 AND tl_title IN ('Infobox_Language', 'Infobox_language'); 3144 rows in set (0.12 sec)
Your query might have been what was slow.