Importing schemas and destroying old tables

[umair-hussain-hs]

So I was just wanted to point out that currently, the importing of schemas into the mysql database backend destroys the tables, if they exist, before creating them, as it is meant to.

My issue is that this implementation makes it difficult to create the Morgue backend when having to provision a new Morgue server while keeping the data from the old Morgue server.

So what I am wondering is, why go with this approach? Why not check if the tables to be created exist before creating them, and then skip creating them if they already exist and not destroying old data.