We've also inserted back-dated log entries into meta.wikimedia.org's log before in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89205 - I'm not aware of any negative side-effects.
On 7 April 2015 at 18:33, Helder . <helder.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > See also > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54919 > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Daniel Barrett <d...@cimpress.com> wrote: > > Will anything bad happen if entries in the MediaWiki "logging" table are > not inserted in chronological order? > > > > Due to a bug, our logging table has incomplete data. I'd like to insert > the missing data using a script. > > However, the log_id column is auto-increment. This means that when the > table is ordered by log_id, > > the data will not be in chronological order by log_timestamp. > > > > Is that bad in any way? > > Or are all applications (like Special:Log) expected to "order by > log_timestamp" rather than log_id? > > > > Thanks, > > Dan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
