Alex wrote:
I'm running mysql 5.0.22 on SLES9, using the mysql.com appropriate rpm.

I've tried other versions of mysql 5, including 5.0.6, 5.0.17, 5.0.18 and 5.0.21. The result is always the same. This leads me to believe, that there are new requirements for mysql 5 and that's the reason ALTER fails.

I can't figure it out myself, please help.

Here's again the create table + alter table which fails:

SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;
CREATE TABLE dbmail_messageblks (
  messageblk_idnr bigint(21) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  message_idnr bigint(21) NOT NULL default '0',
  messageblk longtext NOT NULL,
  blocksize bigint(21) NOT NULL default '0',
  PRIMARY KEY  (messageblk_idnr),
  UNIQUE KEY messageblk_idnr_2 (messageblk_idnr),
  KEY messageblk_idnr (messageblk_idnr),
  KEY msg_index (message_idnr),
FOREIGN KEY (`message_idnr`) REFERENCES `messages` (`message_idnr`) ON DELETE CASCADE
) TYPE=InnoDB;
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;
SET SQL_LOG_OFF=1;
SET SQL_LOG_UPDATE=0;
ALTER TABLE dbmail_messageblks
        DROP INDEX messageblk_idnr,
        DROP INDEX messageblk_idnr_2,
        DROP INDEX msg_index,
        CHANGE message_idnr physmessage_id bigint(21) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
        ADD COLUMN is_header tinyint(1) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
        ADD INDEX physmessage_id_index (physmessage_id),
ADD INDEX physmessage_id_is_header_index (physmessage_id, is_header),
        ADD FOREIGN KEY physmessage_id_fk (physmessage_id)
                REFERENCES dbmail_physmessage (id)
                ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE;




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