Core/DBLayer: Terminate process if table/database structure is not compatible with the core. This will significantly reduce the amount of PEBCAK help and support threads on our forums.

Also added a 10 second window to WPFatal for users who never heard of command line before to read the error prior to process termination.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/server/shared/Database/MySQLConnection.cpp b/src/server/shared/Database/MySQLConnection.cpp
index 70a8beb3d70..9ce924127ba 100755
--- a/src/server/shared/Database/MySQLConnection.cpp
+++ b/src/server/shared/Database/MySQLConnection.cpp
@@ -527,7 +527,12 @@ bool MySQLConnection::_HandleMySQLErrno(uint32 errNo)
         // Query related errors - skip query
         case 1058:      // "Column count doesn't match value count"
         case 1062:      // "Duplicate entry '%s' for key '%d'"
-        case 1054:      // "Unknown column '%s' in 'order clause'"
+            return false;
+
+        // Outdated table or database structure - terminate core
+        case 1054:      // "Unknown column '%s' in '%s'"
+        case 1146:      // "Table '%s' doesn't exist"
+            WPFatal(!errNo, "Your database structure is not up to date. Please make sure you've executed all queries in the sql/updates folders.");
             return false;
 
         default: