Hello, I was wondering if anybody has a good strategy for auto incrementing fields.
I want to auto increment field called "case#" . I have a choice of database auto increment on field "case#" or do it myself? (correct? No other choices exists? or something in between?) 1. I would like to be able to do pick a number where we will start doing a case#? 2. Reserver a case# for a special group which can auto increment case# between 2,000,000-2,999,999, and add them as they come. 3. I don't want to use (system_id) So it seems as the only way is to make my primary key: case# - unique key, primary, not auto incrementing and let some program manage auto incrementing. What options do I have with sqlalchemy to manage any range of these primary keys? 1. let db auto increment 2. Hold the next case# in a separate database table, and let my program use it to find next case# value. How would I lock/unlock the next case# to make there is no race condition and each case# is taken/successfully saved. 3. Any other options? Have people exeperienced with other strategy that is semi-automatic, and would for for these cases.? Thanks, Lucas --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
