[Phpmyadmin-devel] Duplicate forms

Marc Delisle marc at infomarc.info
Fri Aug 3 14:19:19 CEST 2012


Michal Čihař a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> Dne Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:28:31 +0200
> Rouslan Placella <rouslan at placella.com> napsal(a):
> 
>> Quick question: why do we have two forms for renaming a table on 
>> tbl_operations.php? Can one be dropped? Please see attached screenshot 
>> for the location of forms.
> 
> The difference is probably in implementation - in same database, you
> can use just RENAME, for moving data to other database, this might
> fail, so basically it's CREATE TABLE and INSERT .. SELECT.
> 
> Still it would be better to merge these and use RENAME when possible
> and fallback to complex method if needed.

I'm not sure these should be merged. In the mind of some users, renaming 
and moving are different actions.

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Marc Delisle
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