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How to view the text table's contents?
I've got MediaWiki working, however, I'm curious to know how to view the text table's contents in PHPmyadmin as I can't see the deleted page's text. Anyone know how it's done! Ta, —82.42.237.84 22:40, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki version: SVN trunk
 * PHP version: 5.26
 * MySQL version:
 * URL: N/A, testing on localhost

Installation problem with 1.14alpha and PostgreSQL
While the installation of 1.13.2 works fine, 1.14alpha cannot be installed with PostgreSQL (updating from 1.13.2 also does not work properly). Installing on a MySQL-Server also worked fine.
 * MediaWiki version: 1.14alpha
 * PHP version: 5.2.6
 * PostgreSQL version: 8.3.4
 * URL:

PostgreSQL says: DB Connection error: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL: no PostgreSQL user name specified in startup packet

—141.44.21.8 11:25, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Error 1062: Duplicate entry '305' for key 1 (localhost)

 * MediaWiki version:
 * PHP version:
 * MySQL version:
 * URL:

Hi,

Please note that while I am trying to save some content in a wiki page I am getting this error:

A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "RecentChange::save". MySQL returned error "1062: Duplicate entry '305' for key 1 (localhost)".

The error appears when I try to save the page for the first time. If I press the Back button of browser and retry it works.

Can you pls shed some lights on whats the error may be?

Regards, —Jagbir 14:06, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Oracle Support?

 * MediaWiki version: in general
 * PHP version:      5.2
 * MySQL version:    5.0.22
 * URL:

I'm interested in Mediawiki support of Oracle as a DBMS. I've read this support is discontinued some time ago but at the same time I didnot find any comments why this happened, what is the way to get the latest source, what were the bugs and so on. If anyone can help finding a documentation and the way i may use Oracle with Mediawiki, please write to velislav.bg at gmail dot com

—79.110.116.161 07:37, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Text table question
I installed the latest, it works well. However, I'm on WAMP, and I have PHPMyadmin, how do I view the text table?? AC —82.42.237.84 13:10, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki version: SVN build TortoiseSVN
 * PHP version: LATEST
 * MySQL version: LATEST
 * URL: