Wow, thanks both of you. It worked... =)
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Baklund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: August 24, 2005 9:17 AM
To: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: need help with foreign keys, new to mysql
Pat Adams wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 06:11 -0500, John Gonzales wrote:
>
>>CREATE TABLE `journal` (
>> `journal_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
[snip]
>>CREATE TABLE comments
>>(
>> comment_id INT,
>> comment_journal_id INT,
>> INDEX jrn_id (journal_id),
Here you are defining an index named jrn_id on a column called
journal_id. This column must be defined in this table. I suppose it is a
mistake, it should be:
INDEX jrn_id (comment_journal_id),
>> FOREIGN KEY (comment_journal_id) REFERENCES journal (journal_id)
>> ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE
>>) TYPE = INNODB;
>>
>>I got this as a respsone:
>>Key column 'journal_id' doesn't exist in table
See above.
> From the manual:
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/innodb-foreign-key-constraints.html
>
> "Corresponding columns in the foreign key and the referenced key must
> have similar internal data types inside InnoDB so that they can be
> compared without a type conversion. The size and the signedness of
> integer types has to be the same."
>
> You've got an INT in comments table and an int(10) unsigned in the
> journal table. They need to match in signedness.
I don't dispute this, but it was not the reason for the error message. :)
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Roger
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