Re: Reg. _rowid

[Paul DuBois]

>On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:43:47PM +0300, sinisa wrote:
>>
>>  There are no _rowid's in MySQL.
>
>Is there any good reason for that? Seems like an odd omission.
>
>Even if there was limited support with lots of caveats (eg don't expect
>to get the right row after an alter table or optimize statement etc)
>I'm sure it would still be useful in many applications.
>
>Tim.


Do you have an example where _rowid would be more useful than
simply having an AUTO_INCREMENT column?

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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped