Remove Primary Key in MySQL

Without an index, maintaining an autoincrement column becomes too expensive, that's why MySQL requires an autoincrement column to be a leftmost part of an index.

You should remove the autoincrement property before dropping the key:

ALTER TABLE user_customer_permission MODIFY id INT NOT NULL;ALTER TABLE user_customer_permission DROP PRIMARY KEY;

Note that you have a composite PRIMARY KEY which covers all three columns and id is not guaranteed to be unique.

If it happens to be unique, you can make it to be a PRIMARY KEY and AUTO_INCREMENT again:

ALTER TABLE user_customer_permission MODIFY id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT;

One Line:

ALTER TABLE  `user_customer_permission` DROP PRIMARY KEY , ADD PRIMARY KEY (  `id` )

You will also not lose the auto-increment and have to re-add it which could have side-effects.

I believe Quassnoi has answered your direct question. Just a side note: Maybe this is just some awkward wording on your part, but you seem to be under the impression that you have three primary keys, one on each field. This is not the case. By definition, you can only have one primary key. What you have here is a primary key that is a composite of three fields. Thus, you cannot "drop the primary key on a column". You can drop the primary key, or not drop the primary key. If you want a primary key that only includes one column, you can drop the existing primary key on 3 columns and create a new primary key on 1 column.