-----Original Message----- From: Platonides [mailto:platoni...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 7:25 PM To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] installation issue with 1.16.0 - mysql user privilege
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 ================================ I understand that part. What I don't understand is when I upgrade a wiki, for example from 1.15.1 to 1.16.0, the wiki's database user is not granted ALL privilege during the upgrade process as is done during a fresh 1.16.0 install. I know this because I was able to update a wiki to 1.16.0 successfully, including running update.php, using my mysql user account, which is not the root account and does not have permission to grant a database user "ALL" privilege, which is why I get the error during a fresh i.16.0 install. So if I have two wikis, one upgraded to 1.16.0 from an old version, and a 1.16.0 that was freshly installed, their database users have different privileges, with the freshly installed wiki's database user having ALL privileges and the upgraded wiki's database user having whatever privileges were given it during its creation with an older version of mediawiki, presumably less than ALL. The question I have is whether this will lead to problems in the future, such as upgrade to version 1.17.0, where the database user may be assumed to have ALL privileges. In other words, during the upgrade of a wiki to version 1.16.0, should update.php grant the database user ALL privileges as part of its update of the database, so that the database user has the same privileges as a newly installed wiki's database user? Or am I missing something and both upgraded and freshly created database users do have the same privileges? -Jim _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
