I tried to install Piwigo 2.9.4 in Google GCP today.  I created a cloud SQL instance and then created an UbuntuVM for the web front end.

I quickly ran into an issue the STRICT mode mysql 5.7.  I went and addressed that.
I then found that there was no way to force the piwigo to reinstall so I found the SQL files used and created the structure myself.  I found out Google Cloud SQL does not support MyIsam so I searched and replaced with InnoDB.  Not sure if this is a problem.

I then finally got all the insert into piwigo db.

I go to the US now and it wants me to upgrade db with an admin user.

I realize there is not admin user so I make one in the table.
I then make a record for that user in the piwigo_user_infos table and make his status an admin

Then login with that user and it starts to do something it now just displays
=== upgrade 150

everytime I sign in with this user.

Im starting to wonder if the engine change is just throwing this off and maybe I need to walk away from using Google Cloud SQL....

Any ideas what I could look at to get past this or just start over do it with a MariaDB that support MyISAM?