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+<?php
+
+$user = 'wikiuser';
+$password = `/home/wikipedia/bin/wikiuser_pass`;
+$availableDBs = array_map( 'trim', file( "/home/wikipedia/common/pmtpa.dblist" ) );
+shuffle( $availableDBs );
+
+$dbs = array();
+
+# Connect to enwiki
+mysql_connect( 'db4', $user, $password ) || myerror();
+mysql_select_db( 'enwiki' ) || myerror();
+( $res = mysql_query( 'SELECT 1 FROM job LIMIT 1' ) ) || myerror();
+$enwikiHasJobs = ( mysql_num_rows( $res ) != 0 );
+mysql_free_result( $res );
+mysql_close();
+
+
+# Now try the rest
+mysql_connect( 'ixia', $user, $password ) || myerror();
+
+$sql = "(SELECT '-------------------------------------------')";
+foreach ( $availableDBs as $db ) {
+ if ( $db == 'enwiki' ) {
+ continue;
+ }
+ if ( $sql != '' ) {
+ $sql .= ' UNION ';
+ }
+ $sql .= "(SELECT '$db' FROM `$db`.job)";
+}
+$sql .= ' LIMIT 1,1';
+( $res = mysql_query( $sql ) ) || myerror();
+$row = mysql_fetch_row( $res );
+if ( $row ) {
+ $db = $row[0];
+} else {
+ $db = false;
+}
+
+mysql_free_result( $res );
+mysql_close();
+
+
+if ( $enwikiHasJobs ) {
+ if ( $db ) {
+ # Choose enwiki with arbitrary constant probability
+ if ( mt_rand( 0, 4 ) == 0 ) {
+ $db = 'enwiki';
+ }
+ } else {
+ $db = 'enwiki';
+ }
+}
+
+if ( $db ) {
+ echo $db;
+}
+
+function myerror() {
+ $f = fopen( 'php://stderr', 'w' );
+ fwrite( $f, mysql_error() . "\n" );
+ exit(1);
+}
+?>