Fantastic, thanks very much!
Adam
Rob Wultsch wrote:
On Nov 29, 2007 4:34 AM, Adam Lipscombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Folks
How can one conditionally drop an index in MySQL?
Googling shows that the drop index does not support an if exists qualifier
- apparently a bug
has been raised but
Sorry I got carried away in my former response.
When I tried this,
ALTER IGNORE TABLE tbl_name DROP INDEX seems to fail if the index does not
exist.
The DROP INDEX statement is part of a larger script, what I want is for the script to conue to
execute if this index does not exist.
e.g.
On Dec 5, 2007 7:03 AM, Adam Lipscombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry I got carried away in my former response.
When I tried this,
ALTER IGNORE TABLE tbl_name DROP INDEX seems to fail if the index does not
exist.
Right. ALTER IGNORE means that rows that violate unique indexes won't
be
On Nov 29, 2007 4:34 AM, Adam Lipscombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Folks
How can one conditionally drop an index in MySQL?
Googling shows that the drop index does not support an if exists
qualifier - apparently a bug
has been raised but as far as I know its not fixed yet.
Does anyone know
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Subject: Re: how to drop index if exists
On Nov 29, 2007 4:34 AM, Adam Lipscombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Folks
How can one conditionally drop an index in MySQL?
Googling shows that the drop index does not support an if exists
qualifier - apparently a bug
has been raised but as far
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END IF;
END $$
DELIMITER ;
Give it a try !!!
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From: Rob Wultsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:51 PM
To: Adam Lipscombe
Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: Re: how to drop index if exists
On Nov 29, 2007 4:34 AM, Adam
