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Colliding key names #18

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russpoutine opened this issue Jul 31, 2012 · 0 comments
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Colliding key names #18

russpoutine opened this issue Jul 31, 2012 · 0 comments

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Hi, I get a MySQL error (colliding index names) when trying to redefine a foreign key:

Following generated SQL fails:

ALTER TABLE `gallery_image`
DROP FOREIGN KEY `gallery_image_FK_3`
ADD CONSTRAINT `gallery_image_FK_3` FOREIGN KEY `gallery_image_FK_3` (`COLUMN_NAME`) 
REFERENCES  [more stuff here];

... with error message ...

ERROR 1005 (HY000) at line 26: Can't create table 'DATABASENAME.#sql-45c_e7' (errno: 121)

That error goes away if I split the statement in two ...

ALTER TABLE `gallery_image`
DROP FOREIGN KEY `gallery_image_FK_3`;

ALTER TABLE `gallery_image`
ADD CONSTRAINT `gallery_image_FK_3` FOREIGN KEY `gallery_image_FK_3` (`COLUMN_NAME`) 
REFERENCES  [more stuff here];

... so It seems that if both alterations are in a single statement - even though it first drops the key and then recreates it - the name still collides.

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