On Thu Nov 20 2014 at 8:49:14 AM Daniel Barrett <danb(a)cimpress.com> wrote:
>
$wgExtNewFields<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgExtNewIndexes>
> is really handy for adding columns to database tables. Is there an
> equivalent configuration setting for *dropping* columns from tables?
> (Likewise for dropping indexes.)
Chad replied:
Probably, check out the DatabaseUpdater class and its
subclasses.
Which, by the way, everyone should be using. Those $wgExtNew* variables should've been
deprecated ages ago with new-installer.
Thank you - that worked perfectly.
For posterity, this page was very helpful:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DatabaseUpdater.php
DanB
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