maintenance/archives/patch-watchlist.sql

   1 -- Convert watchlists to new new format ;)
   2
   3 -- Ids just aren't convenient when what we want is to
   4 -- treat article and talk pages as equivalent.
   5 -- Better to use namespace (drop the 1 bit!) and title
   6
   7 -- 2002-12-17 by Brion Vibber <brion@pobox.com>
   8 -- affects, affected by changes to SpecialWatchlist.php, User.php,
   9 -- Article.php, Title.php, SpecialRecentchanges.php
  10
  11 DROP TABLE IF EXISTS watchlist2;
  12 CREATE TABLE watchlist2 (
  13   wl_user int unsigned NOT NULL,
  14   wl_namespace int unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
  15   wl_title varchar(255) binary NOT NULL default '',
  16   UNIQUE KEY (wl_user, wl_namespace, wl_title)
  17 ) /*$wgDBTableOptions*/;
  18
  19 INSERT INTO watchlist2 (wl_user,wl_namespace,wl_title)
  20   SELECT DISTINCT wl_user,(cur_namespace | 1) - 1,cur_title
  21   FROM watchlist,cur WHERE wl_page=cur_id;
  22
  23 ALTER TABLE watchlist RENAME TO oldwatchlist;
  24 ALTER TABLE watchlist2 RENAME TO watchlist;
  25
  26 -- Check that the new one is correct, then:
  27 -- DROP TABLE oldwatchlist;
  28
  29 -- Also should probably drop the ancient and now unused:
  30 ALTER TABLE user DROP COLUMN user_watch;