[wp-testers] Attachment bug?

Doug Stewart dstewart at atl.lmco.com
Thu Feb 16 20:09:44 GMT 2006


Dougal Campbell wrote:
> Doug Stewart wrote:
> 
>> Dougal Campbell wrote:
>>
>>> I've been trying to track down a problem on my site[1]. At first, I 
>>> was convinced that the root issue must be in my server environment. 
>>> But after some digging, I think it might be in the WP core code. In 
>>> particular, something to do with post attachments.
>>> [...]
>>
>>
>> I've routinely seen this behavior but haven't bothered to look into 
>> it. It's a big annoyance but the posts seem to go through without a 
>> hitch, it's just the return to the admin interface that's h0rked.
> 
> 
> If I'm right about the problem being in the core, then SQL errors when 
> posting is a bug, and it needs to be fixed. It doesn't matter that the 
> post goes through. Novice users seeing this will (rightly) believe that 
> WordPress is broken.
> 
> Heck, I'm an experienced user, and I was looking all over my server 
> trying to track this down. I had been searching through all kinds of PHP 
> and MySQL documents, looking for similar reports. I didn't spot the real 
> problem until I started logging every database query, and noticed that 
> two updates occurred for a single save of my draft. And even then, it 
> took some more experimentation and digging to realize that it was the 
> presence of the attachment link that triggered it. I've wasted nearly a 
> week on this because it's been bugging me so much.
> 
> That's why I want to finish tracking this down and squash it. I've got a 
> patch, but I need somebody else to verify that the problem exists on 
> other systems before I document all of this on Trac.
> 

Don't misread me - I'd love to have it fixed, it's just that I 
personally haven't had the time to troubleshoot it, so I've just forced 
myself to suck it up and shake my fist impotently skyward whene'er the 
bug affected me.


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Doug Stewart
Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs
dstewart at atl.lmco.com


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