"Dan Muey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a table that I create with=20 > > CREATE TABLE SuperTest ( > ID int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, > Name varchar(64) NOT NULL, > Domain varchar(64) NOT NULL, > PRIMARY KEY(ID) > ); > > I use that same thing to create a the same table on two servers. > > On one server (mysql Ver 11.16 Distrib 3.23.49, for portbld-freebsd4.6 = > (i386)) > If I add, say five records I get ID to be 1,2,3,4,5. > Then I delete ID 5 and insert a new record and it's id is 6. So now I = > have 1,2,3,4,6. > That's what I want it to do. > However on the other server (mysql version ???) if I have 1,2,3,4,5, = > delete ID 5=20 > and insert a new one it makes the new one ID 5. I suppose because it's = > the next number. > > I'm not really even sure what to call it besides 'non reusable = > auto_increment'. > > I can't seem to find anything on mysql.com about what settings, version, = > etc cause it to work either way.
It depends on table types. AUTO_INCREMENT values are reused for BDB and ISAM tables and not reused for MyISAM and InnoDB tables. > > Any insight would be greatly appreciated as in some situations I really = > need it to be one way or the other consistently across servers. -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
