This is moreso a developer on docker problem since afaik prod runs mysql. The docker-compose.yml that comes oob w/mediawiki uses sqlite though.

While trying to install GlobalBlocking and updating my dbs, I noticed that it was running the following sql-only patches:

• sql/patch-global_block_whitelist-reason-length.sql
• sql/patch-global_block_whitelist-use-varbinary.sql
• sql/patch-globalblocks-reason-length.sql

and understandably, the db refused to run the commands on account of sqlite explicitly not support them, throwing an error and halting the update.

I got around it by commenting out the patches and afterwards, could not reproduce the error. However, I believe this error is reproducible if you drop globalblocks and global_block_whitelist and try to update from scratch. @TThoabala I think you mentioned you came across a similar problem? Could you confirm?

AC:

• these patches no longer run if updates are being run on an sqlite db
• update.php finishes successfully on a "fresh run"