I'm adding this table:
CREATE TABLE contenttype (
contenttypeid INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
class VARBINARY(50) NOT NULL,
packageid INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
canplace ENUM('0','1') NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
cansearch ENUM('0','1') NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
cantag ENUM('0','1') DEFAULT '0',
canattach ENUM('0','1') DEFAULT '0',
isaggregator ENUM('0', '1') NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
PRIMARY KEY (contenttypeid),
UNIQUE KEY packageclass (packageid, class)
);
And I get a 1050 "table already exists", but the table does NOT exist.
DESCRIBE contenttype
yields:
1146 - Table 'gunzfact_vbforumdb.contenttype' doesn't exist
and
CREATE TABLE gunzfact_vbforumdb.contenttype(
contenttypeid INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
class VARBINARY( 50 ) NOT NULL ,
packageid INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL ,
canplace ENUM( '0', '1' ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
cansearch ENUM( '0', '1' ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
cantag ENUM( '0', '1' ) DEFAULT '0',
canattach ENUM( '0', '1' ) DEFAULT '0',
isaggregator ENUM( '0', '1' ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
PRIMARY KEY ( contenttypeid ) ,
Yields:
1050 - Table 'contenttype' already exists
Sounds like you have Schroedinger's table...
Seriously now, you probably have a broken table. Try:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS contenttype
REPAIR TABLE contenttype