Yeah, I see now. Previously, I'd just run "select * from revision limit 1" to see the lay of the land. I got some columns with rev_page=0, which confused me. Now I realized that I was looking at the ancient part of the table, which followed the old schema. I got it to work now. Thanks for the help, everyone! -ManishEarth
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:09 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Manish Goregaokar wrote: > >> An important key in every allwiki-iteration is imho the re-use of > >> connections. > > Yeah, I already do that. I've ORDER BY server'd , and I only close and > reopen > > when the server changes. It's quite fast. > > > > What's the quick way to get user/page contribution data? I tried using > the > > page table through putty, but it hanged. The revision table works, but I > can't > > get the page title from it. For some reason, the column rev_page is > populated > > with zeroes. I am able to get the username, revid, timestamp, and > summary, but > > I can't fetch the page name/pageid. ANy help? > > The quick way to get the user's edit count is to use the stored value from > user.user_editcount. > > If you're trying to use the page table to get edit contribution data, > you're > going to have trouble, because all edits (contributions) are in the > revision > table. > > If you want to use the revision table and fetch page titles, do a join on > rev_page = page_id. Then you can select page_namespace and page_title (or > the namespace name instead of an integer from the toolserver.namespacename > table). > > More info about accessing and using the replicated databases is available > here: <https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Database_access>. > > MZMcBride > > P.S. Plaintext e-mails, please. :-) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette >
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