On the newer versions of the Manage Indexes dialog, you must type the name for the index. In previous versions, the name was taken from the first field that was added. This is a pain to have to type the name when many times, the index is just one field long. Can you please put the feature back that when you click on the first field that the index name defaults to this?

Thanks,
Scott Hathaway
Bell Helicopter

"In previous versions, the name was taken from the first field that was added."

This is some time ago now - almost a year I think - this was changed. It was in 6.1x (I tested that 6.16 behaves as recent versions)

This is a not something that was forgotten. It was changed deliberately/consciously.

You may refer to this report:
http://code.google.com/p/sqlyog/issues/detail?id=430


One more problem is that if you have two indexes specifying the first column they will be named identically unless changed by user.

If we should revert this back I think we should do it even better .. so that if 2 indexes are specified wiht same 1st_column, index names should be 1st_column_1 and 1st_column_2 respectively. And *IF* user has been writing his own name in the name field, we should not replace it! That was the issue!


We will discuss this again. I think we should try to find a better solution than *both* what it was before and what it is now!