Dropping column with foreign key Laravel error: General error: 1025 Error on rename

Question

I\'ve created a table using migration like this:

public function up()
{
    Schema::create(\'despatch_discrepancies\',  function($table) {
        $table->         


        

Answer 1

The key (for me) to solving this was to make sure that the $table->dropForeign() command was being passed the right relationship name, not necessarily the column name. You do not want to pass the column name, as would be much more intuitive IMHO.

What worked for me was:

$table->dropForeign('local_table_foreign_id_foreign');
$table->column('foreign_id');

So the string I passed to dropForeign() that worked for me was in the format of:

[local table]_[foreign key field]_foreign

If you have access to a tool like Sequel Pro or Navicat, being able to visualize those will be very helpful.