[wp-hackers] Why no automatic database upgrade?

[Brian Layman]

I've had upgrades take 8 hour to process - and that was after hacking 
the core to remove a step that would have made it take days.  But this 
is a rarer huge multisite install.  As long as there is a constant that 
can be defined to turn off the auto upgrade, this would be cool.

When I update the installs on my servers, its done by batch script 
iterating the cpanel information.  It then calls the upgrade screens via 
wget.

Brian Layman

On 7/26/2012 4:21 AM, Dion Hulse (dd32) wrote:
> On 26 July 2012 18:08, David Anderson <david at wordshell.net> wrote:
>> This then leads to the obvious question - why doesn't WordPress itself do
>> this automatically and not bother the user? I can save the user a click or
>> command - but is there some design reason why this is already an extra step?
>> Would I be in danger of optimising out a step that should not be optimised?
> It is actually done automatically for hte majority of users when they
> use the built in Core Upgrader, It's only those who are using SVN or
> manually updating who ever see the screen.
>
> There have been plans to skip the screen all together.. it's just a
> reasonably low priority change since it doesn't affect most users.
> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7965
>
> However, In a position where WordPress is being used on the command
> line, performing the changes automatically might not be ideal -
> Although most changes are fast and are simply adding indexes or
> capabilities to roles, these upgrade routines in the past have been
> more intensive, and the task being run twice at the same time could
> *theoretically* cause problems.. but I honestly don't see that being a
> problem any time soon (But it could be).
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