Last modified: 2012-12-06 20:36:16 UTC
The databasefield recentchanges.rc_new is marked as obsolete in RecentChanges.php Please drop this field to clean up the table. The problem is, that this field is used at many places in core. You can remove it with a check of the field "rc_type" against the const RC_NEW. Thanks.
changed some rc_new with Gerrit change #17622, but the field is part of an index, that makes it not easy to remove.
Can we please keep such fields for a while, it makes very difficult to test older MediaWiki versions with the same database as the one for master.
(In reply to comment #2) > Can we please keep such fields for a while, it makes very difficult to test > older MediaWiki versions with the same database as the one for master. Yes, that sounds good. Keeping the field at least one release after the last usage was removed. Than it is possible to rollback a upgrade without errors. Maybe adding @deprecated in tables.sql as a comment near the field can make that clearer, because some fields left over in the past.