Last modified: 2013-10-21 19:36:41 UTC
WikibaseClient needs a configuration option to tell it to enable, create and use local cache tables (entity cache, items per site). If set to false, then not create the tables and needs to correspond to pollForChanges mechanism that works outside of the WMF cluster. For now, the configuration option can be set to false. While WMF will not run update.php and the tables won't be created, stuff like jenkins might use update.php.
Effectively, the repoDatabase setting already does that: Caching is enabled if that setting is null/false. I think creation of the cache tables is automatically disabled if the setting is present. Do you think we should have a separate setting?
*poke*?