Thanks for the reply, however looking at all those options and none seems to
do what I need.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PeterWR [mailto:pwr@stripped]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 11:55 AM
> To: Daevid Vincent; mysql@stripped
> 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" <daevid@stripped>
> To: <mysql@stripped>
> 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:victoria.reznichenko@stripped]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:48 AM
> > > To: mysql@stripped
> > > Subject: Re: Drop all keys / indexes on a table?
> > >
> > > "Daevid Vincent" <daevid@stripped> 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;
> > >
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