Actor migration/bn

Historically, MediaWiki has stored references to users (such as the author of a revision or an image) as an  pair, with   for anonymous edits. This was a waste of storage space, caused performance issues on wikis with a huge number of revisions, and made it very hard to rename users or introduce new types of authors such as T133452. MediaWiki 1.31 introduces the concept of actors (someone who makes an action, such as an edit or a log event; currently either a registered user or an anonymous one), and a migration process towards a new database schema, with fields like  and   replaced by fields like. Due to the huge size of the English Wikipedia revision table, which must be fully migrated before the changes can be cleaned up, the migration is being done gradually, over several MediaWiki releases. It is expected to finish in MediaWiki 1.34.

The migration will create an table record for every distinct   /   pair, and replace those pairs with a reference to the actor row ID. The following columns are being migrated:

To avoid doing a costly ALTER TABLE on the extremely huge revision tables of large Wikipedia wikis,  and   are initially copied to the  table and from there back to. revision_actor_temp ছকটি পরে রাখা হবে।

আপনি যদি উইকির মালিক হন, তাহলে সম্ভবত আপনার কিছু করার দরকার নেই; আপনি যখন   চালান তখন মাইগ্রেশন স্বয়ংক্রিয়ভাবে ঘটবে। If you want to control when the migration happens, see and the  maintenance script.

If you are an extension developer, and your extension does direct DB access to some of the affected fields, you'll need to update your queries (and ideally use the  methods, such as, instead of manually constructing your query). During the migration period, you can also use the  class to get schema/field information that respects any   settings.

If you are a tool developer using, there might be performance implications, even if you don't use any of the affected fields directly. See wikitech:News/Actor storage changes on the Wiki Replicas for additional information.