https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64043
Bug ID: 64043
Summary: change in default schema complicates installation with
PostgreSQL
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.23-git
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Installer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
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Change-Id: I25df82065a307b9abc30c694f8c8afff0996d7c1 added support for MSSQL
It changed $wgDBmwschema in includes/DefaultSettings.php
from 'mediawiki' to null, apparently in the belief that no other database
engines were using this setting. But PostgreSQL does use that setting, and
this change adversely affects the installation process. The user can still
successfully install as long they manually specify a schema name. Leaving it
as the now-default value of null or empty causes an error.
I think this part of the change should be reverted, and some compensatory
changes made so that MSSQL still works with the old default value. (Alas, I
don't know what those changes in the MSSQL code would need to be, and couldn't
test them). Adding a new feature shouldn't get to break the existing behavior
of an existing feature for its convenience.
Alternatively, we could change the PostgreSQL code so that when given a null
$wgDBschema it transparently converts it to "public" (the default schema for
PostgreSQL). If starting from scratch I actually would prefer using "public"
rather than "mediawiki" as the default schema name, but we are not starting
from scratch.
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