MediaWiki: “1048: Column ‘old_id’ cannot be null”

If you get this error with MediaWiki (or any other software) you should look at the properties of your table structure. Most probable is that an “auto_increment” is missing. This problem took me quite a while to find, especially because of lots of people on the web come up with the weirdest explanations and solutions, like simply reinstalling and re-importing the data. Not fun if you are in a hurry and have a table with 7.5 million text files.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 at 1:27 pm and is filed under Software. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a reply

Name (*)
Mail (will not be published) (*)
URI
Comment