On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Asher Feldman afeldman@wikimedia.org wrote:
Is code written to populate rev_sha1 on each new edit?
I believe that was part of Aaron's code that got reverted, yes.
Offline generation of hashes is definitely possible, but the only reason you'd do it is to minimize the time during which some rows have an empty hash. It's not strictly offline in that the text will still have to be pulled from ES, but it can be done before the field is added.
Roan