From f9279f4b53f9410cf3e737951f179fcf232f0233 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Starling <tstarling@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 06:09:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] put watchlist update in its own transaction, to reduce lock
 contention and thus increase speed

---
 includes/Article.php | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/includes/Article.php b/includes/Article.php
index a99e733502..d58b48ac33 100644
--- a/includes/Article.php
+++ b/includes/Article.php
@@ -1273,10 +1273,18 @@ class Article {
 
 		if ( $good ) {
 			if ($watchthis) {
-				if (!$this->mTitle->userIsWatching()) $this->watch();
+				if (!$this->mTitle->userIsWatching()) {
+					$dbw->immediateCommit();
+					$dbw->begin();
+					$this->watch();
+					$dbw->commit();
+				}
 			} else {
 				if ( $this->mTitle->userIsWatching() ) {
+					$dbw->immediateCommit();
+					$dbw->begin();
 					$this->unwatch();
+					$dbw->commit();
 				}
 			}
 			# standard deferred updates
-- 
2.20.1