[Labs-l] A (21) day in the Labs

Mon Apr 8 19:43:13 UTC 2013

On 04/08/2013 03:28 PM, Tim Landscheidt wrote:
> I'm all for the "lazy sysadmin" paradigm, but I think that
> shouldn't preclude usable databases.  River's trainwreck is
> freely available
> (https://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/tools/trainwreck)
> and open source, and the effort to port it to Ubuntu and set
> it up is a valuable investment (or the setup of any other
> replication engine that provides the *needed* functionality;
> many-to-one/many isn't something only Tool Labs requires).

There's no reason that can't be looked into, and it seems like a good
idea if we can swing it.

Another possibility, given suitably designed queries, would be to add
federated tables to the appropriate places.

That said, the priority is to first get sanitized replication /up/, in a
form that is suitable for extant tools.  Having iterative improvements
after that is definitely a Good Thing.

-- Marc