Rod Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 20:52, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>>Chris,
>>
>>
>>>Most conspicuously, MySQL is most likely an imitator of Sybase
>>>(progenitor of the code that Microsoft sells) in having
>>>"autoincrementing columns" as compared to PostgreSQL's notion of
>>>"sequence objects."
>>
>>Nope. AUTO_INCREMENT is in the SQL 99 spec. It's actually well-supported
>>in the industry. Eventually we'll probably come up with a command to
>>emulate it using sequences so that we can have the SQL-compliance points.
>
>
> Are you sure about that? A search for AUTO_INCREMENT doesn't give me
> anything.
>
http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/#mix-identity ?
> The DB2 style sequence GENERATORs are a part of the 2002 draft.
>
>
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