diff --git a/lightning/restore/tidb.go b/lightning/restore/tidb.go
index d2c0fbb4c..d60b88c8f 100644
--- a/lightning/restore/tidb.go
+++ b/lightning/restore/tidb.go
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/pingcap/parser/model"
 	"github.com/pingcap/parser/mysql"
 	"github.com/pingcap/parser/terror"
+
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb-lightning/lightning/glue"
 
 	. "github.com/pingcap/tidb-lightning/lightning/checkpoints"
@@ -154,6 +155,7 @@ func InitSchema(ctx context.Context, g glue.Glue, database string, tablesSchema
 
 	task := logger.Begin(zap.InfoLevel, "create tables")
 	var sqlCreateStmts []string
+loopCreate:
 	for tbl, sqlCreateTable := range tablesSchema {
 		task.Debug("create table", zap.String("schema", sqlCreateTable))
 
@@ -171,7 +173,7 @@ func InitSchema(ctx context.Context, g glue.Glue, database string, tablesSchema
 				logger.With(zap.String("table", common.UniqueTable(database, tbl))),
 			)
 			if err != nil {
-				break
+				break loopCreate
 			}
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/lightning/restore/tidb_test.go b/lightning/restore/tidb_test.go
index 4b32834bc..664e47067 100644
--- a/lightning/restore/tidb_test.go
+++ b/lightning/restore/tidb_test.go
@@ -25,10 +25,11 @@ import (
 	"github.com/pingcap/parser/ast"
 	"github.com/pingcap/parser/model"
 	tmysql "github.com/pingcap/parser/mysql"
-	"github.com/pingcap/tidb-lightning/lightning/glue"
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb/ddl"
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb/util/mock"
 
+	"github.com/pingcap/tidb-lightning/lightning/glue"
+
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb-lightning/lightning/checkpoints"
 	"github.com/pingcap/tidb-lightning/lightning/mydump"
 )
@@ -224,6 +225,30 @@ func (s *tidbSuite) TestInitSchemaSyntaxError(c *C) {
 	c.Assert(err, NotNil)
 }
 
+func (s *tidbSuite) TestInitSchemaErrorLost(c *C) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	s.mockDB.
+		ExpectExec("CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `db`").
+		WillReturnResult(sqlmock.NewResult(1, 1))
+
+	s.mockDB.
+		ExpectExec("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS.*").
+		WillReturnError(&mysql.MySQLError{
+			Number:  tmysql.ErrTooBigFieldlength,
+			Message: "Column length too big",
+		})
+
+	s.mockDB.
+		ExpectClose()
+
+	err := InitSchema(ctx, s.tiGlue, "db", map[string]string{
+		"t1": "create table `t1` (a int);",
+		"t2": "create table t2 (a int primary key, b varchar(200));",
+	})
+	c.Assert(err, ErrorMatches, ".*Column length too big.*")
+}
+
 func (s *tidbSuite) TestInitSchemaUnsupportedSchemaError(c *C) {
 	ctx := context.Background()