On 11 May 2006, at 9:20 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:
I'm in favor of adding these functions -- but if and only if we also add a database privilege escalation feature for the site admin to use. Many hosts with *better* security provide multiple database users with tiered privileges specifically so that web applications can access the database without full create/drop rights. Widespread use of the above functions will break Drupal on those hosts. (yes, that means my sites :-)
I agree. This would also be useful for the install system. Although a case could be made that that is a separate patch. And i did mention the privilege escalation in my post =) -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com