mysql bigint能映射成int_使用外键mysql将int列改为bigint

我想将数据库中某些主键列的数据类型从INT更改为BIGINT.以下定义是一个玩具示例来说明问题：

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `owner` (

`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,

`thing_id` int(11) NOT NULL,

PRIMARY KEY (`id`),

KEY `thing_id` (`thing_id`)

) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `thing`;

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `thing` (

`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,

PRIMARY KEY (`id`)

) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

ALTER TABLE `owner`

ADD CONSTRAINT `owner_ibfk_1` FOREIGN KEY (`thing_id`) REFERENCES `thing` (`id`);

现在当我尝试执行以下命令之一：

ALTER TABLE `thing` CHANGE `id` `id` BIGINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT;

ALTER TABLE `owner` CHANGE `thing_id` `thing_id` BIGINT NOT NULL;

我遇到了一个错误

#1025 - Error on rename of './debug/#[temp-name]' to './debug/[tablename]' (errno: 150)

SHOW INODB状态输出：

LATEST FOREIGN KEY ERROR

------------------------

120126 13:34:03 Error in foreign key constraint of table debug/owner:

there is no index in the table which would contain

the columns as the first columns, or the data types in the

table do not match the ones in the referenced table

or one of the ON ... SET NULL columns is declared NOT NULL. Constraint:

,

CONSTRAINT "owner_ibfk_1" FOREIGN KEY ("thing_id") REFERENCES "thing" ("id")

我猜这个外键定义块改变了两边的列类型.解决这个问题的天真的方法是删除外键定义,更改列和重新定义外键.有没有更好的解决方案？