MySQL Bugs: #50750: Alter Table/Drop Table should not be next to each other

Bug #50750	Alter Table/Drop Table should not be next to each other
Submitted:	29 Jan 2010 20:47	Modified:	19 Feb 2010 12:19
Reporter:	Martin Pirringer	Email Updates:
Status:	Won't fix	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	5.2.15	OS:	Any
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	ALTER TABLE, drop table

Description:
When right clicking on a table the "Alter Table" and "Drop Table" Are right next to each other. If one misses with the mouse one is just one step away from disaster (Dropping a table with thousands of records could be very bad when all one wanted to do is change the length of a column or similar)

How to repeat:
In SQL editor for example right click on a table. 

Suggested fix:
Seperate the features similarly as it was in 5.0 where it was something like

Edit Table
Edit Table Data
Create Table
Drop Table

That way there are a couple of items between the 2 and missing "Edit Table" With the mouse will get you into "Edit Table Data" which is not disasterous like dropping the table

you get a dialog, asking if you really want to drop the table when selecting the drop function - so the chance of accidentally  dropping a table is quite small. the current grouping is based on Data Definition vs Data Manipulation Statements.

Many thanks for writing a feature request.

After discussion we don't see that we will implement it in foreseeable future.