23May/070
MediaWiki Upgrade, but One Thing Didn’t Work
I upgraded MediaWiki from 1.9.3 to 1.10.0 on May 10. I like the new features. Only problem: page restrictions were moved from a column in the page table to a separate table in the upgrade. The upgrade script, though this will be fixed in a later release, made `wikidb.page_restrictions.pr_expiry` equal to NULL instead of "infinity". Problem? Shouldn't be ordinarily, but Special:Protectedpages didn't work; the entries from pre-1.10.0 didn't display. I just changed them all manually using phpMyAdmin, but it's fortunate I have a small wiki. Maybe I should learn SQL to cope with possible future errors...



