How to disable index in innodb

Question

I\'m trying to speed up bulk insert in an InnoDB table by temporary disabling its indexes:

ALTER TABLE mytable DISABLE KEYS;

But it gives

Answer 1

A little late but... whatever... forget all the answers here, don't disable the indexes, there's no way, just drop them ALTER TABLE tablename DROP INDEX whatever, bulk insert the data, then ALTER TABLE tablename ADD INDEX whatever (whatever); the amount of time recreating the indexes is 1% of the bulk insert with indexes on it, like 400000 rows took 10 minutes with indexes and like 2 seconds without them..., cheers...