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On a Drupal site with CiviCRM 3.3.2, when I delete a custom field I get an error like:

    [message] => DB Error: insufficient permissions
    [mode] => 16
    [debug_info] => CREATE TRIGGER civicrm_value_hershel_test_24_after_insert AFTER Insert ON civicrm_value_hershel_test_24 FOR EACH ROW INSERT INTO `civicrm`.log_civicrm_value_hershel_test_24 (id, entity_id, log_conn_id, log_user_id, log_action) VALUES (NEW.id, NEW.entity_id, CONNECTION_ID(), @civicrm_user_id, 'Insert') [nativecode=1142 ** TRIGGER command denied to user 'hershel'@'localhost' for table 'civicrm_value_hershel_test_24']
    [type] => DB_Error
This site (obviously) has no SUPER privileges and the enable "Logging" radio button in the Admin section is indeed disabled. I thought perhaps logging somehow enabled itself anyhow but this is what I see in the beginning of config_backend:

a:78:{s:15:"contactUndelete";s:1:"0";s:7:"logging";s:0:"";s:12:"versionCheck";s:1:"1";s:14:
Any ideas why it's trying to create a trigger?

Upgraded to 3.3.5 and the problem no longer exists, but any custom fields which are attempted to be deleted before and generated an error, still can not be deleted:

ALTER TABLE civicrm_value_hershel_test_24 DROP COLUMN `hershel_test_239`
[nativecode=1091 ** Can't DROP 'hershel_test_239'; check that column/key exists]

I could add that field manually of course (so then CiviCRM could delete it), but I'm not 100% where else in the DB the details regarding this field are stored, aside of course from civicrm_custom_field. For this field I do see a record in civicrm_custom_field but I'm not 100% convinced that adding the field manually to the civicrm_value_hershel_test_24 table may not make things worse.

Although I'm inclined to try.

What do you think?

Seems to have worked. Thanks.