robchur wrote:

The profiling table isn't used except in certain debugging conditions.

mediazilla wrote:

I am aware of that. That does not affect the initial comment. The frequency of
use of a certain part of the software has no bearing on whether it should work
or not. It may of course affect the priority assigned to fixing it.

As a user of the mediawiki software I have tried in vain to find the definition
of this profiling table. If I switch profiling to the database on then the code
crashes because the table is not defined. I do not have any way of defining it
because the definition is nowhere included.

Either the broken functionality should be removed or it should be made so that
it is usable.

robchur wrote:

Fair enough. I'll look into making sure there is at least a .SQL file there,
with perhaps a script to be run to do the updates.

mediazilla wrote:

:-)

Have a look at:

maintenance/archives/patch-profiling.sql

It's there since june 2004 but you have to add it manually. I added
a comment about that in DefaultSettings.php in trunk@13902 and
REL1_6@13903 .

Should be enough :)