MYSQL InnoDB unique key not working properly?

Question

I have a really strange problem, and I have no idea what can cause it. Any suggestion will be gratefully appreciated. Here is the table structures and the queries:

CREATE TABLE `big_test` (
  `id` bigint(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `application_id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `account_id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `dev_id` char(128) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `gid` char(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `name` char(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `age` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `image` longblob NOT NULL,
  `updatedon` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  `eik` bigint(11) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '1',
  `me` int(2) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  UNIQUE KEY `gid` (`gid`,`application_id`,`account_id`),
  KEY `dev_id` (`dev_id`),
  KEY `account_id` (`account_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=35796304 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8


mysql> SELECT gid, application_id, account_id FROM big_test WHERE account_id=14811 AND gid='TEST773475616236';
+-------------------------------------------------------------+----------------+------------+
| gid              | application_id | account_id |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+----------------+------------+
| TEST773475616236 |           1655 |      14811 |
| TEST773475616236 |           1655 |      14811 |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+----------------+------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SELECT gid, application_id, account_id FROM big_test WHERE account_id=14811 AND gid='TEST773475616236' AND application_id=1655;
+-------------------------------------------------------------+----------------+------------+
| gid              | application_id | account_id |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+----------------+------------+
| TEST773475616236 |           1655 |      14811 |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+----------------+------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SELECT gid, application_id, account_id FROM big_test WHERE account_id=14811 AND gid='TEST773475616236' AND application_id<>1655;
Empty set (0.00 sec)

mysql> 

All the queries which are used for insert/update operations is "REPLACE". For example:

mysql> REPLACE INTO big_test SET gid='TEST773475616236', application_id=1655, account_id=14811, name='Charlie';

How is that possible, that UNIQUE KEY is not working?

Answer 1

As always, the problem is not in the database it self, but in the programing code. There was a SQL statements executed in transaction, where there was a set for stop checking unique keys. Really stupid but answer the question, and solved the problem :)

Answer 2

I'm not sure about the envirionment you are running from, but "NAME" is a reserved word in MySQL. I've run into issues on other platforms you need to either back tick it, or change it to big_test.name in the replace statement.

-james