From: Sam Reed <reedy@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:48:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Followup r85776, per Aaron, add documentation showing reason why explicit creation... 
X-Git-Tag: 1.31.0-rc.0~30941
X-Git-Url: https://git.cyclocoop.org/%242?a=commitdiff_plain;h=89a136bb46909f20c49da487170f318efd1c59c1;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git

Followup r85776, per Aaron, add documentation showing reason why explicit creation of a new LB was added
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diff --git a/includes/Block.php b/includes/Block.php
index 2ef8e5b4f5..bc4c552b8b 100644
--- a/includes/Block.php
+++ b/includes/Block.php
@@ -889,6 +889,8 @@ class Block {
 	 * Purge expired blocks from the ipblocks table
 	 */
 	public static function purgeExpired() {
+		// https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28485
+		// Create and use a new loadBalancer object, to prevent "1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded;"
 		$lb = wfGetLBFactory()->newMainLB();
 		$dbw = $lb->getConnection( DB_MASTER );