On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:22:48PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote:
> 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
The AUTO_INCREMENT values will be *generated* in sequence. It's possible
that they may not be *used* in sequence, depending on the delay between
the INSERT that generated the value and the following statements in which
you refer to it using LAST_INSERT_ID().
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