At 17:15 +0100 1/30/02, Andreas Schoelver wrote: >Hi there > >We have some table used as sequences. >They only have 2 columns (ID, PID), with the AUTO_INCREMENT flag set >for one of them (ID).
Is the ID column one of the integer types? >By default the tables are empty! >The increment process is done by inserting a new record with a random >value for the non-auto_increment column. >After that the new sequence value is fetched by selecting the random value. >In the next step the one and only new row will we deleted using a >'delete from seq_xx WHERE PID = random_value' >statement, as described in the manual. > >randomly the incrementation of any of the tables fails and the counter >resets to 1, which breaks the whole application. >this appears long before any overflow might happen. > >has anyone else ever noticed this? >any idea what might be wrong ? What is the table type? (ISAM, MyISAM ... ?) > >the version of the server is 3.23.42 . > >best regards >Andreas Schoelver --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
