Since database table installation seems to be one of the first things to go wrong with a Drupal installation (in my case, PHP ran out of memory to give Drupal), install.php should check for one or more of these tables (probably whichever table is created first) to check for a failed installation. Drupal should then prompt the user for confirmation that the install failed and then the drupal database should be cleared and then the installation started again from the beginning or Drupal can just retry an installation using data the creator entered previously.

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dpearcefl CreditAttribution: dpearcefl commented

As a feature request, if this is still a need, it should be moved to D8.

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