Hi! NOT NULL does not prevent the creation of a foreign key constraint. I think the problem was that Andy did not create an index explicitly on the foreign key (he created only on the referenced key).
Regards, Heikki Innobase Oy ----- Original Message ----- From: ""Roger Baklund"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mailing.database.mysql Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 1:16 AM Subject: Re: Can't create FOREIGN KEY restraints on InnoDb tables > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [...] > > The referred to keys are the same type and are indexed (they are > [...] > > CREATE TABLE genres ( > > genre_id SMALLINT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, > [...] > > genre_id SMALLINT, > > ...does not look the same to me... ;) > > -- > Roger > sql > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php