Patch for speeding up "Oldest articles" special page.

diff --git a/maintenance/archives/patch-list.txt b/maintenance/archives/patch-list.txt
index b660a5b..a5f1854 100644 (file)
--- a/maintenance/archives/patch-list.txt
+++ b/maintenance/archives/patch-list.txt
@@ -104,4 +104,8 @@ Run patch-cache.sql on the database to set these fields up. This is
 required for changes to OutputPage.php and elsewhere to continue
 working on an older database.
 
+* 2003-05-23: Index for "Oldest articles"
+"Oldest articles" needs an index on namespace, redirect and timestamp
+to be reasonably fast. (patch-oldestindex.sql)
+
 OutputPage.php User.php maintenance/buildTables.inc maintenance/patch-cache.sql maintenance/patch-list.txt

diff --git a/maintenance/archives/patch-oldestindex.sql b/maintenance/archives/patch-oldestindex.sql
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..83aa694
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maintenance/archives/patch-oldestindex.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+-- Add index for "Oldest articles" (Special:Ancientpages)
+-- 2003-05-23 Erik Moeller <moeller@scireview.de>
+
+ALTER TABLE cur
+   ADD KEY namespace_redirect_timestamp(cur_namespace,cur_is_redirect,cur_timestamp);
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