On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:42 pm, Paul DuBois wrote: > At 11:09 +1030 12/15/03, Mofeed Shahin wrote: > >I'm trying to create a bunch of tables in MySQL. I'm having problems > > creating the following table : > > > >CREATE TABLE foo( > > ID INT PRIMARY KEY, > > note VARCHAR(50), > > FOO_ID INT, > > FOREIGN KEY (FOO_ID) REFERENCES foo(ID) > >) TYPE=INNODB; > > > >The error I get is the following : > >ERROR 1005: Can't create table './moftest/foo.frm' (errno: 150) > > > >I found out that errno 150 means that it didn't like the Foreign key > >constraint. > > > >Does MySQL not support this type of Foreign Key constraint ? > > If does. However, a foreign key must be indexed, and you have declared > no index on FOO_ID. Try this: > > CREATE TABLE foo( > ID INT PRIMARY KEY, > note VARCHAR(50), > FOO_ID INT, > INDEX (FOO_ID), > FOREIGN KEY (FOO_ID) REFERENCES foo(ID) > ) TYPE=INNODB;
Thanks, but I just did, and I got the same error message. Mof. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
