When you set a field to auto-increment, can you tell it where to start?
I'm trying to set up multimaster replication, but I'm worried about auto-increment collisions. Q: If server A starts auto-incrementing at 0, and server B starts auto-incrementing at some point higher than the maximum number of records, would that allow replication without auto-increment collisions? Q2: Assuming you can tell it where to start auto-incrementing, what happens after the following sequence: 1. Johnny inserts record 1000 at server A. 2. Server A receives record number 5000 from server B via replication. 3. Mary needs to insert a new record. Does server A number the new record 1001 or 5001? -- Eric Robinson
