From: Zardosht Kasheff Date: January 16 2013 6:44pm Subject: dropping a temporary table after recovering from a crash List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/internals/38685 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello all, I have noticed the following behavior in TokuDB, a transactional storage engine that supports frm discovery. If we crash in the middle of an alter table, the temporary table, #sql-6ad_1, that was being used to perform the alter, has survived. With discovery, we can see and query the table. How would we go about dropping it? Issuing a drop table does not work. Thanks -Zardosht