[Typo3-dev] Versioning in old MySQL versions (+ DBAL)

[Martin T. Kutschker]

Mathias Schreiber [wmdb] wrote:
> 
>> It doesn't work on 3.23, which is still found on many servers.
> 
> Does this mean making UIDs negative does not work or that our extension 
> does not work.

 From what I understood assigning a negative number to the primary key 
of any table with auto_inc corrupts the key incrementor. Looks like the 
signed -1, is taken as an unsigned int, which makes a pretty high number 
for the next key.

Masi