Well. Good to know. So I guess the only alternative would be to generate 
keys by date/time?
I was hoping to avoid that. I am still worried about the timestamp type not 
having good enough resolution. Seconds are pretty broad.

Thanks,

Eric




>You're asking for trouble. :-)
>
>AUTO_INCREMENTS are not safe for use in a mutli-master environment.
>The scenario you painted will result in a primary key violation on the
>master when it reads the value inserted on the slave.
>
>Jeremy
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