[wp-hackers] Lost categories upgrading to 2.5.1

[Alexander Beutl]

>
> And then there will come some more people and complain about WordPress
> being slow.
>
damn deleted some stuff before that line which I didn't intend to delete...
You could of course start to try detecting any failure condition before
doing anything else - this can be done with upgrade as well as with the
frontend (you wouldn't want any error messages to be shown - would you?)
But then there will come some more people and complain about WordPress being
slow (becuase of that checks).

2008/4/30 Alexander Beutl <xel at netgra.de>:

> and in fact reported a successful upgrade, bothers me.
>
>
> you're right that it should have reported the failure. Maybe one should
> add "If you do not see any error messages above everything is fine now. If
> you see any errors something is broken now - you should import your backup
> or let your sysadmin do this for you if you lack paermissions.".
> Would that satisfy you?
>
> Yes it may be nice to have cancelled the upgrade in this specific case. In
> other cases it might be even better to proceed... anyway: It dosn't matter
> if your database is messed up a litte or much - you'd have to import the
> backup anyway.
>
> However, that the upgrader borks the system when not given sufficient
> > privileges is a very serious bug.
>
> You know - most bugs reside behind a keybord, more systems have been
> crashed by admins then any hacker could do in a livetime. It is a bug to try
> upgrading your database if you lack permissions to do this.
>
> And then there will come some more people and complain about WordPress
> being slow.
>
> Yes upgrade may be a critical point. But it isn't only the softwares who
> should know upgrading is critial - it should be every one who UPGRADES. If
> your system is configured for you to do nothing and not to be able to do
> admin things you should simply keep your fingers away from it - and maybe
> your damn cool sysadmin should have informed you about that.
>
>
> 2008/4/30 Stefano Aglietti <steagl4ml at gmail.com>:
>
> > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:52:13 +0200, "Alexander Beutl" <xel at netgra.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >>
> > >> If WP never have privileges to CREATE table.. how where you able to
> > >> install it first time?
> > >
> > >Because it was created by another MySQL User who had permissions of
> > course -
> > >because it was imported with another user.
> >
> > I know... well this mean that system was intended to be used by users
> > but managed for sysadmin by another user with right priveleges. Then
> > try tu upgrading WP by a normal user is against how that system was
> > intended to be used.
> >
> > Tne it's a no problem again not a WP bug, even id adding a check and a
> > warning would be nice, but not a bug if not present.
> >
> > --
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