does the table ur trying to delete has any primary-foreign key relation.
do "show create table table_name\G"
Also instead of delete, use truncate, i t will be faster.
regards
anandkl
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Sebastiaan van Erk <sebster@stripped>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I followed the instructions but still get:
>
> mysql> delete from mytable;
>
> ERROR 1451 (23000): Cannot delete or update a parent row: a foreign key
> constraint fails (temp file operation failed)
> mysql>
>
> Regards,
> Sebastiaan
>
>
> Krishna Chandra Prajapati wrote:
>
>> Hi Sebastiaan,
>>
>> Steps to fix the issue.
>> 1. Do proper shutdown of mysql server.
>> 2. Check the error log file that mysql server is shutdown properly.
>> 3. Remove log files (ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1).
>> 4. Start mysql server (The log files will be created automatically)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Krishna
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Sebastiaan van Erk
> <sebster@stripped<mailto:
>> sebster@stripped>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just recently upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10, but now I'm having all
>> sorts of temp file problems. For example, when I try to delete a row
>> and violate a contraint I get:
>>
>> ERROR 1451 (23000): Cannot delete or update a parent row: a foreign
>> key constraint fails (temp file operation failed)
>>
>> Instead of telling me which constraint is violated, it tells me the
>> temp file creation failed. I have no reason why it failed, I don't
>> see any error messages in the log.
>>
>> To solve this problem I tried to make a tmpfs partition (I thought,
>> maybe somehow my using ext4 might be a problem):
>>
>> mkdir /tmpfs
>> mount -t tmpfs -o size=1g tmpfs /tmpfs
>> mkdir /tmpfs/mysql
>> chown mysql:mysql
>>
>> and changed the tmpdir in the mysql config to /tmpfs/mysql
>>
>> tmpdir=/tmpfs/mysql
>>
>> But then mysql fails on startup:
>>
>> /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/tmpfs/mysql/ibGgjPv7'
>> (Errcode: 13)
>> 091108 10:12:46 InnoDB: Error: unable to create temporary file;
>> errno: 13
>> 091108 10:12:46 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
>> 091108 10:12:46 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE
>> ENGINE failed.
>>
>> I checked error code 13, which is permission denied, but I don't
>> understand this, because if I change tmpdir to /tmp/mysql it does
>> work, and I have:
>>
>> $ ls -ld /tmp/mysql
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 4096 2009-11-08 10:14 /tmp/mysql
>>
>> $ ls -ld /tmpfs/mysql
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 40 2009-11-08 10:12 /tmpfs/mysql
>>
>> So I don't see the difference....
>>
>> Has anyone encountered similar problems, or know what's going on here?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Sebastiaan
>>
>>
>>
