Hello.
Here is described the possible way of how to force the rollback (you can kill the mysqld process and set innodb_force_recovery to 3 to bring the database up without the rollback, then DROP the table that is causing the runaway rollback): http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/forcing-recovery.html Joseph Cochran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thanks for the questions, hopefully this will help: InnoDB, yes. It's >version 4.1.11, not replicated. > >I am familiar with KILL. It is definitely something I CAN do, but not >necessarily something I SHOULD do at this point in time. Usually when you >kill a process while it's running, it will roll back the transaction before >releasing the process, which often takes as long as the commit: I'd rather >not kill it and have it rolling back for two weeks if I can help it. > >Thanks! -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.NET http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Gleb Paharenko / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.NET <___/ www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]