* Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com [Mon, 18 Apr 2011 01:07:09 -0400]:
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov questpc@rambler.ru wrote:
Also, it's interesting why an ancestor of DatabaseBase is not a member of
MediaWiki
object, too.
What if you needed to switch between DB_MASTER and DB_SLAVE? Easier to just call wfGetDB() as needed.
Ok, I didn't think about that. I do not run MySQL cluster. However, multiple instances can be stored as member of MediaWiki object. But, anyway - maybe that's not needed. I just saw the trend "against the globals" and thought that it can be "generalized". Dmitriy