>Description: On some releases of mysql, after you manually set an AUTO_INCREMENT column to a negative value, the AUTO_INCREMENT fails. On mysql 3.23.32 mysql> DROP TABLE IF EXISTS temp; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> CREATE TABLE temp( -> id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, -> foo VARCHAR(255), -> PRIMARY KEY(id)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO temp (id,foo) VALUES (-1, "works"); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO temp (foo) VALUES ("works"); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO temp (foo) VALUES ("doesn't"); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> select * from temp; +----+---------+ | id | foo | +----+---------+ | -1 | works | | 0 | works | | 1 | doesn't | +----+---------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> On mysql 3.23.37: mysql> DROP TABLE IF EXISTS temp; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> CREATE TABLE temp( -> id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, -> foo VARCHAR(255), -> PRIMARY KEY(id)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO temp (id,foo) VALUES (-1, "works"); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO temp (foo) VALUES ("works"); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO temp (foo) VALUES ("doesn't"); ERROR 1062: Duplicate entry '2147483647' for key 1 mysql> SELECT * FROM temp; +------------+-------+ | id | foo | +------------+-------+ | -1 | works | | 2147483647 | works | +------------+-------+ 2 rows in set (0.03 sec) >How-To-Repeat: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS temp; CREATE TABLE temp( id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, foo VARCHAR(255), PRIMARY KEY(id)); INSERT INTO temp (id,foo) VALUES (-1, "works"); INSERT INTO temp (foo) VALUES ("works"); INSERT INTO temp (foo) VALUES ("doesn't"); >Fix: None knwn. >Submitter-Id: <submitter ID> >Originator: Andrew Barros >Organization: Andrew Barros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key Fingerprint: EC9C DFC5 C565 E90C 0FFA C4E7 539F DE81 2A92 E07D <http://andy.netherweb.com/> _ _ _ _ _ ___| |_| |_ ___ _ _ _ _ ___| |_ | ' \/ -_) _| ' \/ -_) '_| ' \/ -_) _| |_||_\___|\__|_||_\___|_| |_||_\___|\__| > >MySQL support: [none | licence | email support | extended email support ] none >Synopsis: Problem involving negative values and AUTO_INCREMENT >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Category: mysql >Class: sw-bug >Release: mysql-3.23.37 (Source distribution) >Environment: System: Linux discovery 2.4.1 #1 Tue Jan 30 23:44:03 EST 2001 i686 unknown Architecture: i686 Some paths: /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc GCC: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/specs gcc version 2.95.4 20010506 (Debian prerelease) Compilation info: CC='gcc' CFLAGS='-O2 -g' CXX='g++' CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti' LDFLAGS='' LIBC: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 7 19:43 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.3.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1105224 May 6 16:19 /lib/libc-2.2.3.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2529096 May 6 16:21 /usr/lib/libc.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178 May 6 16:21 /usr/lib/libc.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 712844 Mar 31 00:23 /usr/lib/libc-client.so.2000 Configure command: ./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc/mysql --localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql --includedir=/usr/include --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-shared --with-libwrap --enable-assembler --with-berkeley-db --with-innodb --with-gemini --enable-static --enable-shared --with-raid --enable-thread-safe-client --without-readline --with-unix-socket-path=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock --with-mysqld-user=mysql --without-bench --with-extra-charsets=all --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php