Jack Phoenix wrote:
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Jeroen De Dauwjeroendedauw@gmail.comwrote:
$sqlx = substr( $commentedSql, 0, 500 );
What's the reason for this line? Why truncate after 500 chars?
Probably to avoid storing several megabytes inside the sql dump when people save articles.
Now that's a good question! I did some digging and finally found the revision in which that line was added: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/1914 by Tim, dating back to November 2003. Tim might know why that limitation is there, although the code is ooooooold -- I don't think anyone has objections to making the limit configurable at least (but correct me if I'm wrong).
I think the real source is r1834
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/stable/phase3/includes/Da...