I was somewhat surprised when I installed the 6.x-dev version to sort bugs and during the install I was given no choice to select databases. I looked at install.php and realised that the new installer detects the DB type by itself. Shouldn't the install script pollitely tell the user about it? A message saying "MySQL database engine has automatically been selected." would perhaps be useful.

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stevenpatz
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I too was a little surprised, additionally because I have both Postgres and mySQL installed on my server, and luckily Drupal picked Postgres.

I was looking through the database connection code via install.php and it doesn't appear that it would be trivial to report what Database was used. I may have overlooked something though.

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dpearcefl commented

Is this an issue in D8? If so, it should be moved to that issue queue.

Status: Active » Closed (outdated)

Automatically closed because Drupal 6 is no longer supported. If the issue verifiably applies to later versions, please reopen with details and update the version.