[Typo3-dev] Versioning Fix

[ben van 't ende [netcreators]]

Kasper Skårhøj wrote:
> Hi Mattes,
> 
> 
>> I mean - please don't feel offended, but using SQL that works fine
>> on some versions of one (!) DB somewhat messes up my understanding
>> of high quality code.
>> 
> 
> 
> When a field is a SIGNED integer, why can I not make its value
> negative? All IDs are at all times unique and it is therefore clearly
> a bug that the auto_increment feature in MySQL messes up the
> next-index value. This is THE BUG they fixed in later versions.
> 
> So your argument is that high quality code should work on buggy
> implementations? At best you can claim that a requirement of MySQL
> 4.0.18+ is maybe a bit strict, nevertheless only required for
> versioning.
> 
> Why it doesn't work on Oracle etc. I don't know.

Hi,

With my little knowledge of databases logic dictates that negative 
values in auto_increment can not be allowed. Mattes's solution seems 
cross-database so to speak.

gRTz

ben
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