honestly... i don't even know. =( i'm new to mysql... how would i check? -jg
-----Original Message----- From: Jasper Bryant-Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 20, 2005 2:18 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: need help with foreign keys, new to mysql Yes but is the MySQL daemon running as root? I hope it isn't... Jasper John Gonzales wrote: > i am logged in as root > > -JG. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kishore Jalleda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: August 19, 2005 10:35 PM > To: John Gonzales > Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: need help with foreign keys, new to mysql > > check the permissions on the mysql data dir, may be the user mysql or > who ever runs mysql does not have sufficient privileges > Kishore Jalleda > > > On 8/19/05, John Gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>i am creating my own little blog and i am trying to create a comments > > table > >>that uses the primary key of my blog table as a foreign key. i've tried > > the > >>only two ways that i know how and both ways yielded the same error: >> >>#1005 - Can't create table '.\mydatabase\comments.frm' (errno: 150) >> >>i orginally created the comments table before i read about FOREIGN KEYS, > > so > >>i tried executing the following command: >> >>ALTER TABLE comments >>ADD FOREIGN KEY(comment_journal_id) >>REFERENCES journal(journal_id) >>ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE; >> >>which resulted with the same error as listed above. so not really knowing >>what i was doing, i decided to try and create the comments table from >>scratch using the following the command thinking that it might work (which >>it didn't): >> >>CREATE TABLE comments( >>comment_id INT, >>journal_id INT, >>INDEX jrn_ind( journal_id ) , >>FOREIGN KEY ( journal_id ) REFERENCES journal( journal_id ) >>ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE >>) TYPE = INNODB >> >>now before i go and do something stupid, i thought i might ask for some > > help > >>on this issue :D both my blog and comments tables are InnoDB. >> >> >>-- >>MySQL General Mailing List >>For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql >>To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
