How to Resolve WP Database Updte ERROR … ?

  • Hello:
    I’ve logged in to the website I manage a few times this week … and no matter what site-mgmt. feature I try to access (Dashboard, Themes, etc.), WP takes me straight to a “Database Update Required” screen. Every time I’ve clicked on the Update button, I quickly get the following error message:
    Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in/home/[OurSite]/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php on line 1352
    [I added the backticks `]
    The only option I have on this screen is to click on the W icon, and from there I registered/logged in and found this Support forum.
    I’ve seen similar posts about this kind of error, but have no idea how to “re-install plugins” or =. My role as webmaster of this site has been to add content and little more, so I have no idea what else to try … ?
    -> THANKS for any guidance you can provide . . . PvH

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  • I am also having the same issue. My user is trying to access his site, and he gets a database upgrade required message. Clicks on ‘update’ and this is the error he gets.

    Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /data/15/2/74/79/2726405/user/2995896/htdocs/wordpress1/wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php on line 1352

    Line 1349 – 1353 of updgrade.php says

    “SELECT comment_ID FROM $wpdb->comments
    WHERE comment_date_gmt > ‘2015-04-26’
    AND CHAR_LENGTH( comment_content ) >= $content_length
    AND ( comment_content LIKE ‘%<%’ OR comment_content LIKE ‘%>%’ )”
    );

    I can get to the backend of the install using FTP, fish out the code and put it into Dreamweaver to see it, but I don’t know php and I don’t want to alter it without some expert advice.

    Help!

    Hi, just for the benefit of everyone on the codex I figured out the problem and solved it! For a newbie like me I’m pretty impressed with myself!

    First, I found a site about database repair (https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-error-establishing-a-database-connection-in-wordpress/) that instructed me to put the following line in my wp-config.php file:

    define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true);

    Once I did that, I could see the settings by visiting this page: https://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/maint/repair.php

    I clicked on “REPAIR” and it gave me a report that told me my comments table was marked as ‘crashed’… yikes!

    So I googled that and found that I could go into my hosting account and into PhPMyAdmin (under database tools) . From there, I selected the comments table and there was an ‘operations’ tab that had a repair button. I clicked the button, and VOILA.

    Then I went back and did the database update again. No error and I got into my admin interface.

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