Last modified: 2005-04-02 00:17:18 UTC
I (User:Stan Shebs) have a large watchlist on en: WP - about 17-18,000 items, although most are obscure, and only a couple hundred of them actually see edits on any given day - and for the past week or so, asking for Special:Watchlist gets me a page titled "Database error" and text on the page that says "Internal error". While it's perhaps a relief to get off the vandalism-watching treadmill after two years on it, I can't even bring up to the list to shrink it down.
dammit is working on a much faster way to do the watchlist. It will use recent_changes table for the changes of the last 7 days.
*** Bug 1798 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Solved on live site. CVS commits pending.