On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:33:50PM -0700, Matt Templeton wrote:
>
> I've read the documentation but can't seem to find a clear answer to
> this...
>
> If I set up a table that has and auto-increment ID table and insert
> a number of records that are incremented in sequence. Then I delete,
> say the 5th and the 8th row and do a full (database creation and
> data) mysqldump.
If you can tell me where in the docs you expected to find the info,
I'll gladly work up a patch for the docs.
> Now, if I use the dump to rebuild the database and restore the data,
> will the ID numbers recorded in the dump be used or will the ID
> numbers be renumbered? I'm wondering because restoring from a dumb
> file uses and sql INSERT to restore each record....
Try it any see. :-)
The ID numbers will not change. mysqldump will dump out the actual id
values rather than putting a NULL or some other place-holder in there.
Jeremy
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