Lightning wrote:
Lightning wrote:
> Is there a a reaon we don't have an article primary key ID. We have
> primary numeric keys for revisions in the cur table, whats up with
> this?
We could do so, but this would require some restructuring of tables and
then taking the wiki offline for a full day or so to get it in place.
For most intents and purposes, cur_id is the article primary key ID.
> Wouldnt using the article name as a primary key
be a lot slower
> than using a numeric one?
Not much, probably, but perhaps a little.
whooops i feel realllly stupid. old_id == cur_id
right ?
Nope.
yeah you see
i thought id's were unique to each revision...whoops. But in all
seriousness, having each revision have a unique id may not be a bad idea...
That's what old_id is. :)
-- brion vibber (brion @
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