From 4d8b00bdf69c789b75192b0d90f9c53abb1ddca6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ilmari Karonen <vyznev@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 17:35:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] wisdom from IRC :)

---
 includes/GlobalFunctions.php | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/includes/GlobalFunctions.php b/includes/GlobalFunctions.php
index 3c902ded61..949a45c931 100644
--- a/includes/GlobalFunctions.php
+++ b/includes/GlobalFunctions.php
@@ -449,6 +449,17 @@ function wfMsgWeirdKey ( $key ) {
 function wfMsgGetKey( $key, $useDB, $forContent = false, $transform = true ) {
 	global $wgParser, $wgContLang, $wgMessageCache, $wgLang;
 
+	/* <Vyznev> btw, is all that code in wfMsgGetKey() that check
+	 * if the message cache exists of not really necessary, or is
+	 * it just paranoia?
+	 * <TimStarling> Vyznev: it's probably not necessary
+	 * <TimStarling> I think I wrote it in an attempt to report DB
+	 * connection errors properly
+	 * <TimStarling> but eventually we gave up on using the
+	 * message cache for that and just hard-coded the strings
+	 * <TimStarling> it may have other uses, it's not mere paranoia
+	 */
+
 	if ( is_object( $wgMessageCache ) )
 		$transstat = $wgMessageCache->getTransform();
 
-- 
2.20.1