Adding foreign key to existing table gives error 1050 table already exists

Question

I\'ve a table CustomizationSet with the columns:

customization_set_guid (which is a non-nullable guid and also the primary key)
creator_account_guid
and a fe         


        

Answer 1

So a team member figured this out. The one table was set with the type utf8_general, and another was set to the type default. I didn't think this was an issue, since the default is utf8_general, but apparently mysql just looks at the type names and not the underlying type.