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Work around an issue in MariaDB where dropping a column from a UNIQUE KEY fails
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Authored by epriestley on Aug 30 2018, 1:18 PM.
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Summary

See T13193. See T13077. If we drop a column which is part of a UNIQUE KEY, MariaDB raises an error.

This is probably a bad idea on our side anyway, but in this case it wasn't an obviously bad idea.

To get around this:

  • Drop the unique key, if it exists, before dropping the column.
  • Explicitly add the new unique key afterward.
Test Plan

Ran bin/storage upgrade locally without issue, but I'm on MySQL. Will follow up on T13193.

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