Re: Antwort: Re: Why Heap Tables doesn´t support auto increment ?colums

2001-03-02 Thread Alexander Skwar

So sprach Gerhard Schmidt am Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:02:54PM +0100:
 Besides the fakt tha this ID not unique. There ist the Problem that 
 the ID you proposed ist an String ID and strings als Index are the 

Well, but he could make a two column primary key, where the first is the
timestamp, and the second an unsigned int holding the ip, if the ip is first
transformed from the usual dotted notation (1.2.3.4) to the "raw" number
(which would be 4+3*256+2*256*256+1*256*256*256 in this case - 16909060 ). 
Thus would give a timestamp + integer key, which is fast to index.

 The question still is. Why are auto_increment columns are not supported 

True.

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Re: Antwort: Re: Why Heap Tables doesn´t support auto increment ?colums

2001-03-01 Thread Gerhard Schmidt

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Entryon Corp., Chief Technical Officer - P. 
Hasenfratz wrote:
   Why not use a timestamp column to guarentee the order in which rows get
   inserted into the table? You can then order on the timestamp column.
 
  Hmm, timestamp, ie. seconds as finest resolution, might be to broad
 depending on
  the hits his site will get - imagine that 2+ users access the site in the
 same
  second, then you won't be able to distinguish them, will you?
 
 What's if you combine a timestamp with the client's IP address?
 
 for example:
 
 5/6/2001
 IP : 212.33.69.2
 
 = clientstamp will be 05.06.2001-212.033.069.002

Besides the fakt tha this ID not unique. There ist the Problem that 
the ID you proposed ist an String ID and strings als Index are the 
Major Preformance killer on Databases. Wie kann calculate an intager 
from the two information. totaly loosing the Uniqueness. 

The question still is. Why are auto_increment columns are not supported 
fuer Heap Tables. 

SoLong 

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