This could cause problems decoding the content from External Store:
mysql:research@x1-analytics-slave [flowdb]> SELECT COUNT(*), rev_user_wiki FROM flow_revision WHERE rev_flags = 'external' GROUP BY rev_user_wiki; +----------+---------------+ | COUNT(*) | rev_user_wiki | +----------+---------------+ | 1 | cawiki | | 21 | enwiki | | 13 | frwiki | | 1 | hewiki | | 2 | mediawikiwiki | | 6 | metawiki | | 42385 | test2wiki | | 84 | testwiki | +----------+---------------+ 8 rows in set (0.18 sec)