Hello.
Here is described the possible way of how to force the rollback
(you can kill the mysqld process and set innodb_force_recovery to 3 to
bring the database up without the rollback, then DROP the table that is
causing the runaway rollback):
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/forcing-recovery.html
Joseph Cochran <g.jsciv@stripped> wrote:
>
>Thanks for the questions, hopefully this will help: InnoDB, yes. It's
>version 4.1.11, not replicated.
>
>I am familiar with KILL. It is definitely something I CAN do, but not
>necessarily something I SHOULD do at this point in time. Usually when you
>kill a process while it's running, it will roll back the transaction before
>releasing the process, which often takes as long as the commit: I'd rather
>not kill it and have it rolling back for two weeks if I can help it.
>
>Thanks!
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