On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Wes Wannemacher <w...@wantii.com> wrote:

> That is generally a bad idea. Select max(row) will generally initiate
> a full index scan or, even worse, a full table scan.
>

Isn't it a greater problem that this approach is a race condition? 2 threads
call max(id) about the same time and then try to insert max + 1 one just
after the other.

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Daryl Stultz
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