At 15:28 +0100 1/9/03, Csongor Fagyal wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Sorry if this had been asked on this list previously.
>
>If you had an auto_increment field in a table (let's name it "id"),
>previously (in 3.23.x, 4.0.x) the following (legal) SQL statement
>resulted in a "duplicate key" error:
>UPDATE whatevertable SET id = id +1;
It's syntactically legal, but the error makes perfect sense. If you have id
values of 1 and 2 in the table, updating 1 to 2 cannot work, given
that there is already an id value of 2.
>
>Will this be fixed in 4.1.x? Can it be fixed? Is there a workaround?
As of MySQL 4.0.0, you can use ORDER BY with UPDATE, which may allow you
to solve your problem by updating the record beginning with the largest
id value and working backward:
UPDATE tbl_name SET id = id + 1 ORDER BY id DESC;
>
>Regards,
>- Cs.
