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Conditionally drop a primary key from a table in MySQL (v. 5.6)
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-- Temporarily change delimiter to $$ | |
DELIMITER $$ | |
-- Drop procedure if it exists | |
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS drop_pk_if_exists $$ | |
-- Begin create procedure | |
CREATE PROCEDURE drop_pk_if_exists () BEGIN | |
-- If my_table has a primary key | |
IF EXISTS(select * from `information_schema`.`table_constraints` | |
where `constraint_schema` = database() | |
and `constraint_type` = "PRIMARY KEY" | |
and `table_name` = "my_table") THEN | |
BEGIN | |
-- Drop the primary key | |
ALTER TABLE `my_table` DROP PRIMARY KEY; | |
END; | |
END IF; | |
END $$ | |
-- Reset delimiter back to ';' | |
DELIMITER ; | |
-- Call procedure | |
CALL drop_pk_if_exists(); | |
-- Drop procedure | |
DROP PROCEDURE drop_pk_if_exists; |
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