Thanks for the suggestions.
It worked fine
regards
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From: "Egor Egorov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 11:36 PM
Subject: re: Re: alter table syntax
> kayamboo,
> Friday, December 06, 2002, 9:15:04 AM, you wrote:
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> k> When I tried to drop the key, this was the error
>
> k> mysql> alter table town_db drop primary key ;
> k> ERROR 1025: Error on rename of '.\forest\#sql-f6_1' to
'.\forest\town_db'
> k> (errno: 150)
>
> k> I suppose some lock in the index somewhere but couldnot figure it out.
>
> Did you have another table with foreign key constraints for which
> town_db is a parent table? If so, you need to create index on the
> 'town' and then drop PRIMARY KEY.
>
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