Fixing "Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction" for a 'stuck" Mysql table?

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Published on 2010-05-04T15:43:40Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 15:48 UTC
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From a script I sent a query like this thousands of times to my local database:

update some_table set some_column = some_value

I forgot to add the where part, so the same column was set to the same a value for all the rows in the table and this was done thousands of times and the column was indexed, so the corresponding index was probably updated too lots of times.

I noticed something was wrong, because it took too long, so I killed the script. I even rebooted my computer since them, but something stuck in the table, because simple queries take a very long time to run and when I try dropping the relevant index it fails with this message:

Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction

It's an innodb table, so stuck the transaction is probably implicit. How can I fix this table and remove the stuck transaction from it?

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