On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 14:43, Andrew Garrett <agarr...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > On 06/07/2009, at 12:05 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > > > 2. The info won't be up-to-date. Would it be too much to ask to search > > the database directly using regexes? > > Yes. > > We wouldn't allow direct searching from the web interface with regexes > for two related reasons: > > 1/ A single search with the most basic of regexes would take several > minutes, if not hours. [...] > > 2/ Even if we could find a way to make the former performant, a > malicious regex could significantly expand this time taken, leading to > a denial of service.
I imagined that that would be the answer. Maybe it is possible to set up a service that searches some back-up database, which is almost up-to-date, or to have someone approve the regexes to prevent DOS. Just throwing a bunch of ideas to the air. Mostly i was interested to find out whether there is an existing script that searches dumps, instead of writing one myself. -- אמיר אלישע אהרוני Amir Elisha Aharoni http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
