diff --git a/libraries/Table.class.php b/libraries/Table.class.php
index c55bf4703..3d1da42d3 100644
--- a/libraries/Table.class.php
+++ b/libraries/Table.class.php
@@ -255,9 +255,9 @@ class PMA_Table
             . ' (' . PMA_Table::countRecords($db, $table, true) . ')';
     }
 
-    static public function sGetStatusInfo($db, $table, $info = null)
+    static public function sGetStatusInfo($db, $table, $info = null, $force_read = false)
     {
-        if (! isset(PMA_Table::$cache[$db][$table])) {
+        if (! isset(PMA_Table::$cache[$db][$table]) || $force_read) {
             PMA_Table::$cache[$db][$table] = PMA_DBI_fetch_single_row('SHOW TABLE STATUS FROM ' . PMA_backquote($db) . ' LIKE \'' . $table . '\'');
         }
         
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ class PMA_Table
             return PMA_Table::$cache[$db][$table];
         }
         
-        if (! isset(PMA_Table::$cache[$db][$table][$info])) {
+        if (! isset(PMA_Table::$cache[$db][$table][$info]) || $force_read) {
             PMA_Table::$cache[$db][$table] = PMA_DBI_fetch_single_row('SHOW TABLE STATUS FROM ' . PMA_backquote($db) . ' LIKE \'' . $table . '\'');
         }
         return PMA_Table::$cache[$db][$table][$info];
diff --git a/libraries/tbl_info.inc.php b/libraries/tbl_info.inc.php
index dad487033..8fea9d818 100644
--- a/libraries/tbl_info.inc.php
+++ b/libraries/tbl_info.inc.php
@@ -36,7 +36,11 @@ global $showtable, $tbl_is_view, $tbl_type, $show_comment, $tbl_collation,
 // otherwise error #1046, no database selected
 PMA_DBI_select_db($GLOBALS['db']);
 
-$showtable = PMA_Table::sGetStatusInfo($GLOBALS['db'], $GLOBALS['table']);
+// PMA_Table::sGetStatusInfo() does caching by default, but here
+// we force reading of the current table status
+// if $reread_info is true (for example, coming from tbl_operations.php
+// and we just changed the table's storage engine)
+$showtable = PMA_Table::sGetStatusInfo($GLOBALS['db'], $GLOBALS['table'], null, (isset($reread_info) && $reread_info ? true : false));
 
 // need this test because when we are creating a table, we get 0 rows
 // from the SHOW TABLE query