Am Donnerstag, 9. Januar 2003 15:28 schrieb Csongor Fagyal: > Hi, > > Sorry if this had been asked on this list previously. > > If you had an auto_increment field in a table (let's name it "id"), > previously (in 3.23.x, 4.0.x) the following (legal) SQL statement > resulted in a "duplicate key" error: > UPDATE whatevertable SET id = id +1; > > Will this be fixed in 4.1.x? Can it be fixed? Is there a workaround? > > Regards, > - Cs.
The following should already do what you want: UPDATE whatevertable SET id = id + 1 ORDER BY id DESC; -- Christian Kohlschütter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newsclub.de - Der Meta-Nachrichten-Dienst --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
