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another fool having problems with FK in InnoDB
Posted by: Mat private
Date: April 03, 2009 02:57AM

Hi,

I've been testing FK in innodb and was able to create a working test on some tables. But... on these two tables (just an example) I keep on getting the famous Error code: 1005.

These are the schema's:

CREATE TABLE `table1` (
`Table1_id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` varchar(20) collate latin1_general_ci NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`Table1_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=0 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 COLLATE=latin1_general_ci;


CREATE TABLE `Table2` (
`Table2_id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name_id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL,
`other_info_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`some_more` varchar(10) collate latin1_general_ci NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`Table2_id`),
KEY `name_id` (`name_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=0 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 COLLATE=latin1_general_ci;


I need to be able to make a foreign key on table 2 after it was created (I was just testing if I could, becasue for an already existing database, I need to alter the tables, to be able to use FK).

So, after creating the test tables, I ran this query:

alter table testinnodb.table2
add foreign key (name_id)
references table1(Table1_id)
on delete set null
on update cascade;

This is where I get the error. I don't understand why. The datatypes are the same, they both have an index for the columns needed...I just don't get it...
Can you help me out?
Kind regards,

Matthijs

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