On 8/6/09 10:30 AM, Chad wrote: > Depends on which maintenance script you're talking about. Update.php > certainly does, as does renameDbPrefix (just to grab one off the top of > my head). The vast majority of scripts can function just fine with normal > DB access. Some (mcc and digit2html, to name a few) don't need any > DB access at all.
Generally, only updaters need create/alter/etc privs; a few script that do mass rebuilds of indexes will also want to do things like dropping and re-adding indexes -- for example rebuildTextIndex drops the fulltext index on the searchindex table, then re-adds it after refilling the table's contents. And a few "extreme" maintenance ops like MySQL replication master switches of course will need all kinds of fun privs. ;) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
