When I installed MediaWiki 1.18.1 on a 3rd party server, I got the following scary error message:
"Warning: You have selected MyISAM as storage engine for MySQL, which is not recommended..."
even though I was never given the option to choose between MyISAM and InnoDB. This is confusing.
See related Bug 28669.
Version: 1.18.x
Severity: minor
I guess this could happen if you have MyISAM available but not InnoDB--but I kinda feel sorry for anybody in such a boat ;-)
So that works as intended. Maybe we should rephrase the warning message whenever someone did not have a choice :-D
karun.84 wrote:
Perhaps we should only show this warning message on servers with InnoDB available? Or add an additional message saying InnoDB is currently not available.
We can show a (slightly) different message if we're using MyISAM and InnoDB isn't available--it might not be the user's fault. The warning still needs to convey that if you're using MyISAM, you should absolutely try to change it if you can.
Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/60926 (Gerrit Change I68e79a8efe7cd625c12b5993074de9c3479e760b)
Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/61944 (Gerrit Change Ia57b92762a2de83c3bdb1b5e74c0e6d7ce9db309)