When I am trying
drop tables users;
It shows error: Cannot delete or update a parent row: a foreign key constraint fails
Here are my tables:
CREATE TABLE `events` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`title` varchar(128) NOT NULL,
`users_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`capacity` int(64) NOT NULL,
`event_date` datetime NOT NULL,
`text` text CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_czech_ci,
`last_edit` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `users_id` (`users_id`),
CONSTRAINT `events_ibfk_5` FOREIGN KEY (`users_id`) REFERENCES `users` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
CREATE TABLE `users` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`email` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`password` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`role` enum('admin','member','guest','registered') NOT NULL DEFAULT 'registered',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
UNIQUE KEY `email` (`email`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
CREATE TABLE `users_data` (
`id` int(120) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`users_id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`name` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
`username` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
`phone_number` varchar(25) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `users_id` (`users_id`),
CONSTRAINT `users_data_ibfk_5` FOREIGN KEY (`users_id`) REFERENCES `users` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
CREATE TABLE `user_matches` (
`user_id` int(120) NOT NULL,
`match_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
KEY `user_id` (`user_id`),
KEY `match_id` (`match_id`),
CONSTRAINT `user_matches_ibfk_4` FOREIGN KEY (`user_id`) REFERENCES `users_data` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE,
CONSTRAINT `user_matches_ibfk_5` FOREIGN KEY (`match_id`) REFERENCES `users` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
I think I did wrong foreign key but I am not sure how to change it correctly. Thank you for your any advice.
When you submit drop table users
MySQL checks for referential integrity constraints violation when the deletion is about to be committed. This check fails because you have defined the following constraint of events
:
CONSTRAINT
events_ibfk_5FOREIGN KEY (
users_id) REFERENCES
users(
id) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE
and at the same time on the events
table the users_id
field cannot be NULL
. Therefore, upon dropping the table, the users_id
is set to NULL
which fails during commit. One possible way to work around this problem is to remove the NOT NULL
constraint on the users_id
field on the events
table.