On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Brion Vibber wrote:
when these kind of important and critical changes are
made
by people from the other side of the Ocean, without consulting the
hardworking people on this side of the Atlantic, people can
become very upset. I can't feel anything of a community-feeling in
this way of
acting.
> Jeroen (Dutch Wikipedian)
Jeroen, if you have a better way to keep the server up and running at
decent speed, I *beg* you to share it with the development team.
My first intuition would be that a gain can well be made in the area of
checking the existence and size of linked-to pages when reading a page,
probably at the cost of making changing pages slower. Problem is that I
don't know what is currently done (this has been proposed before, so maybe
it has been wholly or partly implemented already) nor what exactly MySQL
can and cannot do and in what speed (in particular, performing a binary
search on a table that it knows to be ordered).
Andre Engels