So referential integrity is maintained but AUTO_INCREMENT values may not be
chronological?
Connection A's LAST_INSERT_ID() may be 3 at 15:20
AND
Connection B's LAST_INSERT_ID() may be 4 at 15:18
- Scott
> In the last episode (Jan 16), Scott Gerhardt said:
> > I was reading the information on foreign keys in the manual
> > http://www.mysql.com/doc/e/x/example-Foreign_keys.html
> > and noticed that there is no mention of locking the tables.
> >
> > It seems to me that using the example verbatim could lead to loss of
> > referencial integrity if INSERTS did not occur in sequence (i.e. another
> > person was inserted before shirts).
> >
> > Using "LAST_INSERT_ID()" can only be guranteed to work if the tables are
> > locked.
>
> >From the manual section on LAST_INSERT_ID():
>
> The last ID that was generated is maintained in the server on a
> per-connection basis. It will not be changed by another client.
>
>
> --
> Dan Nelson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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