Author: bugzilla_wikipedia_org.to.jamesd

Description:
If suitable, please merge the live compressOld.php and
compressOld.inc from /home/wikipedia/common/php-
1.4/maintenance with the 1.4 and 1.5 CVS versions.

I received a request to exclude categories and their tallk
pags, which are currently in considerable flux, from the
concatenated compression to make it easier to delete them. I
implemented that by adding support for arbitrary SQL
restrictions in the query which selects which articles to
compress. No safety checks - it's a raw SQL inclusion into
the query, which seems OK for a maintenance script.

It's currently running live on the site, most recently
started like this:

nice php compressOld.php en wikipedia -e 20050108000000 -q "
cur_namespace not in (10,11,14,15) " -a Burke | tee -
a /home/wikipedia/logs/compressOld/20050108enwiki

Now shows the query when starting it, in part because it can
take 700 seconds to run and in part to show the query in
case there's a problem with it:

Starting article selection query cur_title >= 'Burke' AND
cur_namespace not in (10,11,14,15) ...

This one is excluding template, category and their talk
pages.

EXPLAIN /* compressWithConcat */ SELECT
cur_namespace,cur_title FROM cur WHERE cur_title

'Burke' AND cur_namespace not in (10,11,14,15) ORDER BY

cur_title:

• row 1 *** table: cur type: index possible_keys: cur_title key: cur_title key_len: 255 ref: NULL rows: 1420880 Extra: Using where

No problems with the explain result.

Priority set to high because someone is going to hit a
conflict for this when pushing CVS to the live site if it's
not merged first.

Version: 1.4.x
Severity: normal