I have enough disk space for indexes, the problem doesn't happen during
adding an index. it happens after the index is added.

On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 21:33, mos wrote:
> At 06:28 PM 12/28/2003, you wrote:
> >Hello Every Body ,
> >I have been facing a strange problem, that i assume its a mysql bug of
> >some sort.
> >
> >In my datadabase there are 2 tables, if i tried to add any index to them
> >,any INSERT INTO request status will be - in show processlist- update
> >and will freeze like this forever , and consequently all inserts ot this
> >table stays in the que, untill mysql stops responding.
> 
> This can happen if you're run out of disk space for adding the indexes. 
> When an index is added, it has to create a copy of the table. If it runs 
> out of space it can just sit there locking out the other processes that are 
> waiting for the table.
> 
> Mike


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