Laravel migration: “Foreign key constraint is incorrectly formed” (errno 150)

Question

When migrating my DB, this error appears. Below is my code followed by the error that I am getting when trying to run the migration.

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Answer 1

Maybe it can be of help to anyone landing here : I just experienced this same issue, and in my case it was that I had a (composite) unique constraint set on the foreign key column BEFORE the foreign key constraint. I resolved the issue by having the "unique" statement placed AFTER the "foreign" statement.

Works:

$table->foreign('step_id')->references('id')->on('steps')->onDelete('cascade');
$table->unique(['step_id','lang']);

Doesn't work:

$table->unique(['step_id','lang']);
$table->foreign('step_id')->references('id')->on('steps')->onDelete('cascade');