MySQL Bugs: #83723: Crashes Frequently When Altering Tables

Bug #83723	Crashes Frequently When Altering Tables
Submitted:	7 Nov 2016 14:06	Modified:	7 Dec 2016 16:14
Reporter:	Andrew Bouchard	Email Updates:
Status:	No Feedback	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	6.1.7.11891 build 1788	OS:	SUSE (openSUSE 13.1)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	ALTER TABLE, foreign key, opensuse, workbench

Description:
Apologies if I struggle with terminology - this is my first attempt to build a database, and I am very grateful for this tool.

I was able to create a database ('verification') and a number of tables without issue. However, I'm going back through the tables now to improve my naming conventions and add foreign keys, and now I'm having trouble with it crashing frequently. Initially I saw it only when adding foreign keys; I could get through filling out everything, but then I would hit the "Apply" button and it would crash. I thought I was doing something wrong and decided to look at it fresh this morning after the weekend, and since then I've see it crash several times, once just when changing tabs, when trying to select the table for a foreign key - it doesn't appear to be consistent except that it's always when I'm trying to alter a table, though that's all I'm trying to do at the moment.

Ironically, I can't get it to crash while I have this website open to document more specifics. For now, I'm only having one table open to alter at a time, and that seems to help make it more stable.

How to repeat:
It doesn't seem to be consistent to a particular situation or action.

Thank you for the bug report. You are using a very older version current release is 6.3.8. Please upgrade.

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