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Showing full MySQL foreign key errors

In case of a foreign key error when creating or altering a table, MySQL doesn't show the full message.

You can read the full message by executing the following query and inspecting the Status column.

show engine innodb status;
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LATEST FOREIGN KEY ERROR
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2018-02-13 11:12:26 0x70000b776000 Error in foreign key constraint of table table/#sql-7fa_247a:
 foreign key (`my_foreign_key`) references `table` (`id`)
   on delete cascade:
Cannot resolve table name close to:
 (`id`)
   on delete cascade