Haisam, ----- Original Message ----- From: ""Haisam K. Ido"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.mysql Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 10:29 PM Subject: Foreign Key problem? in MySQL 4.0.7
> I was able to create the "gid" table with no problem under mysql 4.0.7 > > CREATE TABLE gid ( > id INT(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, > groupname VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL, > passwd VARCHAR(128) NULL, > gid INT(11) NOT NULL, > username VARCHAR(128) NULL, > inserted_by VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL default 'root', > epoch_inserted DATETIME NULL, > modified_by VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL default 'root', > epoch_modified DATETIME NULL, > UNIQUE KEY keyword(id,groupname,gid), > PRIMARY KEY (groupname, gid) > ) TYPE=INNODB; > > but when I attempt to create the "uid" table below I get the following foreign key > error. What am I doing wrong? the referenced column gid must appear as the FIRST column in some index. Above it appears as the second column. > ERROR 1005: Can't create table './vhadmindb/uid.frm' (errno: 150) > > CREATE TABLE uid ( > id INT(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, > username VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL, > passwd VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL, > uid INT(11) NOT NULL, > gid INT(11) NOT NULL, INDEX gid_ind (gid), FOREIGN KEY (gid) > REFERENCES gid(gid), > gecos VARCHAR(128) NULL, > homedir VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL, > shell VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL, > inserted_by VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL default 'root', > epoch_inserted DATETIME NULL, > modified_by VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL default 'root', > epoch_modified DATETIME NULL, > UNIQUE KEY keyword(id, username, uid), > PRIMARY KEY (username,uid) > ) TYPE=INNODB; Best regards, Heikki Tuuri Innobase Oy --- Order technical MySQL/InnoDB support at https://order.mysql.com/ See http://www.innodb.com for the online manual and latest news on InnoDB sql query --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
