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Opened 13 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#12773 closed defect (bug) (worksforme)

dbDelta fails to create multiple tables with IF NOT EXISTS

Reported by: scibuff's profile scibuff Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 2.9.2
Component: General Keywords: dbDelta, wpdb, create table
Focuses: Cc:

Description

using the dbDelta function with a query containing multiple CREATE TABLE will fail to create all but the last table: e.g

dbDelta(
	CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `A` (...);
	CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `B` (...);
)

will create only the B table

It seems that the function doesn't parse the SQL correctly and attempts to create a table called 'IF'

Change History (1)

#1 @nacin
13 years ago

  • Milestone Unassigned deleted
  • Resolution set to worksforme
  • Status changed from new to closed

dbDelta takes a standard CREATE TABLE definition and compares it with the schema.

If the table, field, or index doesn't exist, it adds it, or the reverse, if a field or index is removed, it removes it.

Additionally, the table definition must be written to very careful specifications (consult wp-admin/includes/schema.php's table definitions as an example) for dbDelta to work completely.

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