MySQL error when trying to truncate table - mysql

Question

I'm having problems to truncate a table on the MySQL Server 5.5.
The table I'm trying to truncate has a column that serves as a foreign key in another table.
The CREATE TABLE of both tables involved is as it follows:
CREATE TABLE `tbluser` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`email` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`password` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`creationDate` datetime NOT NULL,
`creationUserId` int(11) NOT NULL,
`updateDate` datetime NOT NULL,
`updateUserId` int(11) NOT NULL,
`lastAccess` datetime NOT NULL,
`enabled` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
UNIQUE KEY `id_UNIQUE` (`id`),
UNIQUE KEY `email_UNIQUE` (`email`),
KEY `FK_tbluser_creationUserId` (`creationUserId`),
KEY `FK_tbluser_updateUserId` (`updateUserId`),
CONSTRAINT `FK_tbluser_updateUserId` FOREIGN KEY (`updateUserId`) REFERENCES `tbluser` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE,
CONSTRAINT `FK_tbluser_creationUserId` FOREIGN KEY (`creationUserId`) REFERENCES `tbluser` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=5 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
CREATE TABLE `tblpost` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`title` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`content` mediumtext NOT NULL,
`creationDate` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '1901-01-01 00:00:00',
`creationUserId` int(11) NOT NULL,
`updateDate` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '1901-01-01 00:00:00',
`updateUserId` int(11) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `FK_tblpost_creationUserId` (`creationUserId`),
KEY `FK_tblpost_updateUserId` (`updateUserId`),
CONSTRAINT `FK_tblpost_updateUserId` FOREIGN KEY (`updateUserId`) REFERENCES `tbluser` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE,
CONSTRAINT `FK_tblpost_creationUserId` FOREIGN KEY (`creationUserId`) REFERENCES `tbluser` (`id`) ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
Please note that all the constraints are both set to DELETE and UPDATE ON CASCADE.
When I try to TRUNCATE the table:
TRUNCATE TABLE `<databasename>`.`tbluser`;
I receive the following error message:
Cannot truncate a table referenced in a foreign key constraint
(`<databasename>`.`tblpost`,
CONSTRAINT `FK_tblpost_updateUserId`
FOREIGN KEY (`updateUserId`)
REFERENCES `<databasename>`.`tbluser` (`id`))
In addition to this information, there is the fact that when the action above is attempted on a MySQL Server 5.1, it works!
Does anyone have an idea of why this is happening?

Answer 1

Check here . That makes sense that TRUNCATE TABLE raises an error in such cases; the bad thing that it's not documented.