I'm sorry but that is a low value reason for gapless ids. Reports will still sort in exactly the same order by ids with or without gaps so long as a consistent generation method is used other than pure guid.
John Davidson On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Quintin Par <[email protected]> wrote: > this is primarily for the ease of reporting > > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:52 PM, John Davidson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I would be interested in knowing the use case that mandates a primary key >> without gaps, as a primary key should have no business meaning, but it >> appears that there is in this case. Once the reason is identified there may >> be an alternate solution, independent of the key generation for the ture use >> case. >> >> John Davidson >> >> >> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Tuna Toksoz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hilo's intention is not only to be able to manage multiple app service >>> but also to be reduce overhead of table locks. >>> Getting a max and incrementing it will everytime cause a lock. With hilo, >>> you don't have that problem. >>> >>> >>> >>> Tuna Toksöz >>> Eternal sunshine of the open source mind. >>> >>> http://devlicio.us/blogs/tuna_toksoz >>> http://tunatoksoz.com >>> http://twitter.com/tehlike >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Quintin Par <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> te to pick up the highest record set value >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "nhusers" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<nhusers%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "nhusers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<nhusers%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nhusers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nhusers%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nhusers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en.
