We'd love to, but we need to either a) take it offline for a
few days or
b) invent a way to convert the database without
data loss or damage
while keeping it online.
-- brion vibber (brino @
pobox.com)
I suppose most of the time will be taken to convert old.
Shouldn't be possible to convert only cur while either leave
old unconvert
or mark each entrey in old as unconverted/still in iso-8859-1
and convert
these entries when they are needed or by a very low priority job?
(of course the soft will need to handle the conversion flag
when viewing on old version
of an article, doing a diff, ...)
Is this doable or still too complex?
It's possible. Just need to change a bit the software :) Just need to add a flag UTF-8
as the soft add a flag gzip. And tell the soft to read as it is.
Shaihulud