Tedd Sperling <tedd.sperl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 27, 2013, at 8:47 PM, Paul M Foster <pa...@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:47:28PM +0200, adriano wrote:
> > 
> >> holes in sequence of auto increment happen using transaction for
> >> insert new record but you don't commit transaction itself
> >> it seems that the autoincrement is incremented anyway
> >> at least this is my case.
> > 
> > I think what Tedd was referring to was something else. The "hole" was
> > quite large. I've seen this behavior myself, in PostgreSQL. From one
> > transaction to the next, there were over 10,000 skipped numbers, and
> > only me and my wife on the system. Some sort of bug, like a spinlock
> > that wasn't interrupted the way it should have been. I remember the
> > system taking forever to calm down before it gave the next transaction a
> > number way forward of the last one. I waited in front of my browser for
> > quite some time. But I couldn't explain why.
> > 
> > Paul
> 
> Yes, it was something like what Paul said -- it was not a transaction skip.
> 
> I don't know what to think about it -- no explanation.
> 
> But, the problem suddenly vanished -- very strange.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> tedd
> 
> _____________________
> tedd.sperl...@gmail.com
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I have no answers as to why the huge skip forward, the huge skip
backwards though makes me think someone else is doing something in the
database, and all the alarums and red flags are waving. I hope I'm
wrong.

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