[wp-docs] Re: [wp-hackers] Install/Upgrade Docs for 1.6 Release

[Ryan Boren]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 14:08 -0400, Owen Winkler wrote:
> It's also worthwhile to note (this is probably better recorded in Trac, 
> but it's on my mind right now) that upgrading very large databases from 
> 1.2 to 1.5 doesn't always work.  There is a very inefficient section of 
> the upgrade code that does a query for every post and comment to remove 
> slashed quotes.  On large databases this section easily times out.  The 
> same would be true for an upgrade to 1.6 from 1.2.

I want to start versioning the DB.  This will avoid running the deslash
code unless we are really upgrading from 1.2.x or older.

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1791

This won't help upgrades from 1.2.x, but at least we won't suck when
upgrading from 1.5.x and later.

Ryan