[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20635: _pad_term_count get's stuck if there is a loop in the hierarchy

[WordPress Trac]

#20635: _pad_term_count get's stuck if there is a loop in the hierarchy
---------------------------------------------+-----------------------
 Reporter:  westi                            |       Owner:  westi
     Type:  defect (bug)                     |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal                           |   Milestone:  3.7
Component:  Taxonomy                         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  westi-likes has-patch 3.6-early  |
---------------------------------------------+-----------------------

Comment (by nacin):

 How expensive is this? If done on the front page of a site when something
 is otherwise a read operation, are we looking at a race to run the
 wp_update_term() to fix the loop in the hierarchy?

 westi, what did you mean by "stuck"? Infinite loop? Or something less bad?

--
Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/20635#comment:9>
WordPress Trac <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/>
WordPress blogging software