http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-auto-increment-column.html
We have recently switched several database tables from MYISM to INNODB, only to find out this colossal design flaw in InnoDB tables. We ship out mySQL on our appliances in enterprise level scenarios. We often like to start the AUTO_INCREMENT for several tables at 10,000 -- this way we can reserve the lower 'block' of IDs for our own internal and 'default' use so all customers have the same basic database schema. It also makes our code easier to write as we can, in one easy swoop, make the ID's of any record < 10000 immutable, uneditable, etc. Are there plans to fix what we perceive to be a tremendous bug? Why would you make it so that the AUTO_INCREMENT value is stored in memory only?! What use is that? I would have preferred if AUTO_INCREMENT threw an error on InnoDB tables, this way we would have known this months ago instead of now that we're well into this porting of tables, schema and now code. This is such a subtle but significant change to the table-type that it should have been made painfully obvious to anyone trying to switch types. You are costing us many man-hours now of re-architecting existing code, and trying to figure out a way to upgrade existing customers. ...And yes, we *DO* pay you your $10,000 support contract. *sigh* This is very disappointing. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
