As a non-tech, don't all reads (at least) pass through the squids, so we can identify and report in a nice way a lot of connection errors at that point? </ignoreifnaive>
FT2 On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > There are dozens of places where error messages are generated. It's > not trivial to replace them all. Some of them are hard-coded in > compiled binaries, some are on the client side. > > The error message in question comes from DBConnectionError in > Database.php in the MediaWiki source. It's hard-coded and the source > would have had to have been patched. Since no database problems were > anticipated, even if we had tried to implement your plan, we wouldn't > have thought to patch Database.php, and the result would have been the > same. > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l