Thanks for the reply, however looking at all those options and none seems to do what I need.
> -----Original Message----- > From: PeterWR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:55 AM > To: Daevid Vincent; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Drop all keys / indexes on a table? > > Hi, > > Take at look at CHECK TABEL - as far as I remember, the CHECK > TABLE EXTENDED > will do a re-index (check index), otherwise some of the other > OPTIMIZE, etc. > can help on this. > > Take a look in the exellent manual. > > Best regards > Peter > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daevid Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:44 PM > Subject: RE: Drop all keys / indexes on a table? > > > > Ugh. I was afraid you were going to say that... > > Seriously, there's no way to just 'wildcard' ALL indexes, > someone should > add > > that as a feature request. We're using 4.0.17 BTW. > > > > What happens if I list out all the indexes that there > _could_ be in one > > ALTER line like that, and one of the indexes doesn't > actually exist? Will > > the whole ALTER fail? > > > > Here's the situation, I wrote a script that runs > recursively through a > > directory and applies all the .sql files it finds (in alpha > order). This > > script runs as part of a client update, and doesn't > necessarily run the > same > > number of times for everyone. So, some clients may have > extra indexes: > > foo_1, foo_2, foo_3, ... foo_15 etc. (the problem at hand), > and other > > clients may just have: foo_1, foo_2, foo_3. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Victoria Reznichenko > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:48 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: Drop all keys / indexes on a table? > > > > > > "Daevid Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It has come to my attention that we have maxed out our keys > > > due to a stupid > > > > update script bug. It seemst that we've not been explicitly > > > naming our keys > > > > and therefore mysql tried to be helpful and adds a new key > > > each time! > > > > *sigh*. > > > > > > > > Is there a SQL command to DROP ALL keys on a table, so I > > > can just ALTER it > > > > and add them specifically again? > > > > > > > > > > Specify several DROP INDEX clause in the single ALTER > TABLE statement: > > > ALTER TABLE table_name DROP INDEX index_name1, DROP > > > INDEX index_name2, .. , DROP INDEX index_nameN; > > > > > > > > > -- > > > For technical support contracts, goto > > > https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita > > > This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ > > > __ ___ ___ ____ __ > > > / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Victoria Reznichenko > > > / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net > > > <___/ www.mysql.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > MySQL General Mailing List > > > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > > > To unsubscribe: > > > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- > > MySQL General Mailing List > > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
