Re: [PHP] Reseting the auto-increment number in a MySQL database.

[email protected] (Tedd Sperling)
Newsgroups php.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jun 27, 2013, at 8:47 PM, Paul M Foster <[email protected]> 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

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