Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote:
> Yes, I think this is the problem, that my superuser is missing a privilege or 
> two.  Since the error is trying to add "ALL" privilege to the database_user, 
> you would pretty much have to use the mysql root account to do the 
> installation, which is likely the way most if not all installers do it.  I 
> have a security conscious mysql admin so the superuser account I have does 
> not have ALL privilege.
> 
> But it seems strange that the 1.16.0 installation wants to give ALL privilege 
> to the database_user it creates when it does not need ALL privilege, as 
> proved by my ability to run update.php to upgrade from 1.15.1 to 1.16.0.  I'm 
> guessing they are planning for the future since it is not necessary now.
> 
> -Jim

That's what bug 20634. In some cases there were problems in updates due
to not being able to CREATE/ALTER tables, thus what r56285 does.
> Give the installer-created database user CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE rights 
> so that upgrades will go more smoothly



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