Today’s interesting MySQL Error Message

You have to love error messages some times. Today is was “ERROR 1289 (HY000): The ‘UNKNOWN’ feature is disabled;”

For those interested.

mysql> select version();
+-------------+
| version()   |
+-------------+
| 6.0.0-alpha |
+-------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> set session sql_mode=NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> create table T2 (id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL) ENGINE=InnoDB;
ERROR 1289 (HY000): The 'UNKNOWN' feature is disabled; you need MySQL built with 'UNKNOWN'
to have it working

In this case it’s obviously something that’s not quite right, so being a good community contributor I raised a bug. You can read more at Bug #29373 .

MySQL values the contributions from the community, even as trivial as documentation or error messages. If you have an inquiry raise it at the forums or the lists , or if it’s obviously an issue raise it in the Bugs System

Tagged with: Databases MySQL

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