Brion Vibber wrote:
The storage of old article revisions on Wikipedia is
taking a few gigs
now, and getting larger.
Occasional alterations made to the old table's structure require a
duplicate temporary table; the downside of Innodb's storage management
<SNIP>
* PHP needs to be recompiled with zlib support; we may
have to make it
optional for third-party sites.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
If this were not optional it would be a serrious blow to some other
wikipedia based sites (not that there are many). There are a lot of
webhosting companies that will not want to change their setups just so a
few customers can continue to run the latest version of PediaWiki.
Tobin Richard