Hi,
I have a table 'test'
+---------+--------------+------+-----+-------------------
+----------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default |
Extra |
+---------+--------------+------+-----+-------------------
+----------------+
| id | int(11) | NO | PRI | NULL |
auto_increment |
| foo | varchar(255) | NO | | NULL
| |
| bar | varchar(255) | NO | | NULL
| |
| payload | longblob | YES | | NULL
| |
+---------+--------------+------+-----+-------------------
+----------------+
where 'payload' size usually is quite big!
Now I want to manipulate a number of rows in a non-trivial way and at
the
same time set 'id' for those rows to a new number in the sequence. I.e.
UPDATE test SET id = NEXT_INSERT_ID(), foo = some_function(foo) WHERE
bar ...
My motivation is that this table has several consumers in other
applications
that keep track of the biggest 'id' they have seen between polls and
thus
can keep track of new and changed rows.
Right now, I solve this problem by copying the rows to a temporary
table,
then delete them and insert them from the temporary table but this
moves my
huge payload around which I really want to avoid.
How can I solve this in a better way?
/Andreas Pardeike
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