[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 Bartosz Dziewoński matma@gmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added CC|

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 Sam Reed (reedy) s...@reedyboy.net changed: What|Removed |Added Depends on||36912 --

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 Mark A. Hershberger m...@everybody.org changed: What|Removed |Added AssignedTo|roan.katt...@gmail.com

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 --- Comment #11 from Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com 2011-06-14 18:32:59 UTC --- (In reply to comment #10) Isn't there even an SQL command to return just the length of the matched set instead of the items themselves? Yes. It's COUNT(*)

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 --- Comment #8 from Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongm...@gmail.com 2010-11-27 18:39:47 UTC --- This can only be implemented as returning x where x is a specific number or something that indicates more than y. Would such a feature still be useful or

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 --- Comment #9 from Reedy s...@reedyboy.net 2010-11-27 22:48:51 UTC --- It's still useful, ish. The use case was for the damn stupid A page is an orhpan, if it has less than X incoming links.. And other such stupid responses. Technically, the

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 --- Comment #5 from Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com 2009-09-05 09:24:10 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) This would indeed be useful. Primarily in cases where the size of the result set is greater than the limit for a single query

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 --- Comment #6 from Le Chat cat...@vp.pl 2009-09-05 12:53:41 UTC --- So can you explain how it does work? Is the list of backlinks maintained explicitly in some table? Or does the software compile the list each time, by looking through the

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added CC||cat...@vp.pl

[Bug 17993] Option on API lists to only have count of links/categories/whatever returned, rather than a full resultset

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17993 Reedy s...@reedyboy.net changed: What|Removed |Added Summary|Have result list count |Option on API lists to only