orphan

Call it The GCDLADB if you like.

1 min read Jul 30, 2019 | Updated: Jul 31, 2019 22:53
None of this is my creation, but it’s too valuable to forget! So kudos to Goran Nikolovski and his blog post. The problem I ran into involved the Drupal update.php script, and an orphaned bit of configuration data. When I tried running update.php the first of 13 pending database updates kept throwing an exception telling me of a missing plugin, and that effectively killed the other 12 updates. 😦 Well, I really didn’t care that it was missing (and Drupal should not either) because the update was there to delete it, but since the update kept failing, we had ourselves an impossible loop. ...