If you kill the process in the middle of huge alter. It will take some time to reverse them back. It will be fast if you have good memory.
Thanks, Saravanan --- On Wed, 6/11/08, Ananda Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Ananda Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: kill process id. To: "mysql" <mysql@lists.mysql.com> Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 6:05 PM Hi All, I killed a process with kill <process id>; This processid i got from show processlist. But the process is in KILLED state for long time, is there a way to kill it instantaneously. Below is the job i have killed, as it started doing REPAIR BY KEYCACHE Alter Table ebay_research_temp enable keys Repair with keycache please let me know. regards anandkl