Hello Egor, I am not sure how large the table is, since I cannot access it now. I would guess that it has at least 1 million rows, and maybe more.
It is a MyISAM table type. I probably terminated the create index command after about 1 hour. Afterwards, when I type 'use database_name' on that database, it seems to get stuck, i.e. it says the following and then no more: Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A I have not terminated the mysqlcheck, it is still running but giving no feedback - the actual command was mysqlcheck database_name --fast -v Cheers, David. ------------------------------------------------------------- David Churches Department of Physics and Astronomy Cardiff University, 5 The Parade, Cardiff, CF24 3YB, U.K. Phone: + 44-29-20874785, 20875120 (direct line) Fax: + 44-29-20874056 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Egor Egorov wrote: > David, > Thursday, October 24, 2002, 11:27:30 AM, you wrote: > > DC> I am using mySQL version 3.23.52 and I have tried to create an index on a > DC> large table. This was taking a very long time and so the command was > DC> terminated. Now the database seems to be corrupted, or at least > DC> inaccessible. Is there anything I can do? > > CREATE INDEX on a large table is not a quick operation. How large is your > table? How long creation continued before you terminated it? > > What is the type of the table? > > DC> I have tried mysqlcheck but it seems to be taking a very long time too. > > You terminated myisamchk, too? > What do you mean "inaccessible"? Do you get any error? Please, be more > detailed .. > > > > -- > For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita > This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ > __ ___ ___ ____ __ > / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov > / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net > <___/ www.mysql.com > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
