Seriously, it did. Sorta.
I use Workbench for my daily work, and it’s a great tool. If you haven’t tried the 5.2 release yet, you should. While performing some maintenance, I happened to issue a DELETE statement against a table which had no indexes (it was 10 rows), and Workbench complained:
Error Code: 1175
You are using safe update mode and you tried to update a table without a WHERE that uses a KEY column
It turns out this is a new feature in 5.2.26 (and is still there in 5.2.27) – Workbench now uses the equivalent of –safe-updates mode for the mysql command-line client (also known as the –i-am-a-dummy option – seriously). This wasn’t exactly convenient for me, especially since the DELETE was part of a larger script which I then had to revise and step through manually after it failed, but there’s an easy way to change this behavior. If you’re like me, you might consider disabling this:
- Go to Edit -> Preferences
- Select the SQL Editor tab
- Uncheck “Forbid UPDATE and DELETE statements without a WHERE clause (safe updates)”
Despite the text, the –safe-updates mode affects more than UPDATE and DELETE statements without WHERE clauses – it requires such statements to explicitly use indexes.
I’m changing this behavior on my installation before I run into other problems.
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