On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Paul M Foster <paulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Unless you have some compelling need to store a number like this, I > don't see the need to. What I store is what is called in PostgreSQL a > "serial" value. MySQL calls it "auto_increment". You store all the other > values as a row, and the DBMS adds in the "auto_increment"/"serial" > value for you. It's an integer, *usually* one larger than the last value > entered. > > Paul > The (personal) project I'm about to start will run in several threads (thinking how can I make this happen in PHP) where the inserts could be multiple inserts at once. Identity (type) insert doesn't behave nicely (locking up the DB) when there are multiple inserts at once. Using UUID is one of the possible solution to resolving this problem for me. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
