Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Global_Data

[(YOD) <yo...@pn...>]

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Reini Urban wrote:

> (YOD) schrieb:
> > What is global_data? I was cleaning up my database and accidentally 
> > deleted this. It was the first item in the base and I didn't recognize it. 
> > Another Wiki I have also has global_data (and I did not remove it (g)).. 
> > Should that be something I should be concerned about?
> 
> global_data is the one and only special page PhpWiki keeps around to 
> store/restore its system-wide, not page-specific state.
> It should not be deleted, but it causes no critical errors if you 
> already did.
> It could be any other pagename also. (See lib/WikiDB.php:538)
> PhpWiki uses the special metatag "__global" in global_data for its 
> special data.
> Every WikiDB::get() - WikiDB::set() call uses this area.
> Currently we use it for non-critical values,
> the DB _timestamp, plus some global stats.

Reini: I tried to reinsert global_data and this is what I got:

Error

SQL-query : 

UPDATE `page` SET `pagename` = 'global_data',
`pagedata` = 
'a:1:{s:8:"__global";a:1:{s:10:"_timestamp";a:2:{i:0;i:1112395452;i:1;i:98;}}}' 
WHERE `id` = '2892' LIMIT 1 ;

MySQL said:
#1062 - Duplicate entry 'global_data' for key 2