[development] Database creation on Install

Yannick Warnier ywarnier at beeznest.org
Wed Nov 19 05:25:45 UTC 2008


Le mardi 18 novembre 2008 à 21:40 -0500, Andrew Berry a écrit :
> On 14-Nov-08, at 12:23 AM, Dmitri Gaskin wrote:
> 
> > This has not yet been attempted (I think) simply because most people  
> > do not install with a user with sufficient rights to create a  
> > database, and therefore there is no need for most people
> 
> In most setups I've encountered, if you can CREATE DATABASE you can  
> also DROP DATABASE. Not really something I want *any* Drupal install  
> to be able to do :).

Considering Drupal is open-source and, as such, its database structure
is pretty much public, I can't see much difference in the results
between a "DROP DATABASE x" and several "DELETE FROM TABLE x" ...and I'm
pretty sure Drupal needs a delete permission for most tables.

Yannick



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