On Mon Oct 18, 2004 at 12:58:42 +1000, torquemada wrote: > >OID's, (object-ID's) are made exactly for this purpose. >if your database vendor does not provide this feature, lobby for it. >ie PostgreSQL supports OID's and they are pretty much guaranteed to be >unique
Well, the better idea is to start a transaction, get the next id from a seqeunce, and then use this as the UID. I'm not sure if MySQL has sequences, but I'm *sure* that this is a problem that is solved in some way in the MySQL. Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
