Re: Create table results in (errno: 121)

[Martijn Tonies]

Hi,

> I'm trying to create a table with the following syntax
>
> CREATE TABLE TNSession
> (
> SessionID int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
> IPAddress varchar(50) default NULL,
> Created datetime default NULL,
> Expired tinyint(4) default '0',
> AccountID int(11) default '0',
> PRIMARY KEY (SessionID),
> KEY FK_AccountID (AccountID),
> CONSTRAINT `0_20` FOREIGN KEY (`AccountID`) REFERENCES `TNAccount`
> (`AccountID`)
> ) TYPE=InnoDB ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC;
>
> it results in a
>
> ERROR 1005: Can't create table './TNMailServer/TNSession.frm' (errno: 121)
>
> This is on version mysql-standard-4.0.18-pc-linux-i686
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this as it has me stumped - There is a
> TNAccount table with a AccountID column?

Is it indexed?

And don't forget you can use the command
SHOW INNODB STATUS\G

to show the last FK related error.


With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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