On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Robin Johnson wrote:

If you have data in a table, and hit browse, the SQL query box has 3
links. "[Edit] [Explain SQL Code] [Create PHP Code]" however, if I paste a
query into the SQL box, such as "Update PMA_relation SET
master_db='foobar'", the result box from that does not have the same set
of links. Could somebody help me figure out why ASAP? This is important
for 2.3.0, as well as my surprise feature (see below).

I found out some of this, and cleaned up a lot of the code in the area,
plus made it more customizable via $cfg, and fixed a bug with the EXPLAIN
I noticed (You could hit EXPLAIN, but not go back from there).

I'm closer to the bug, but still working on it.

On a last note, I'm just about ready to merge my surprise feature, just
tidying it up for PHP clean-ness myself now, but I can see quite a few
people liking it, and it possibly gaining us a lot of respect in the
actual SQL development fields. The only catch is that it has a fairly high
requirements list (PHP XML extension + a few PEAR modules), so it is
disabled by default in the configuration file, with notes that it needs a
lot of things to work.

Partial merge is starting, completely non-intrusive.