At 07:04, 19990827, cshepard wrote:
>My problem/question is that the auto_inc keys may be missing
>some numbers due to deletions along the way, so I assume I
>cannot use SELECT INTO and LOAD DATA or I'll end up with
>new perfectly sequential auto_inc numbers. Or is there
>some way to override the auto increment feature during
>LOAD DATA? Didn't see anything in the manual about it.
In the manual section on "Things that must be done in the real
near future" you'll find this:
* Add an `IMAGE' option to `LOAD DATA INFILE' to not update
`TIMESTAMP' and `AUTO_INCREMENT' fields.
So maybe you could check with developer@stripped and see how
hard that is, and you could code it up for them. It doesn't
sound too difficult....
>Hmmmmm. Last minute thought: Could I in fact, just
>cp the suckers and then ALTER TABLE ... type=MYISAM?
>That'd be kewl.
That should work. You'll keep the old copies around as backup,
right? :-|
Tim
