Why is products_description.products_id an auto-increment field?

12 Jan 2016, 4:31 PM

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Why is products_description.products_id an auto-increment field?

Given that the products_description table's products_id field is always updated directly with the products_id value from the associated *products *table, why is the products_description.products_id field tagged with an auto-increment attribute in the database?

No issues here, just trying to learn/understand.

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12 Jan 2016, 5:22 PM

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Re: Why is products_description.products_id an auto-increment field?

I've always wondered the same.

And, I thought we'd addressed that awhile back ... but evidently we haven't. Not even in the v160 code. Argh.

Maybe we can convince wilt to allow that change for v155 ;)

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12 Jan 2016, 5:53 PM

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Re: Why is products_description.products_id an auto-increment field?

There is absolutely no reason it needs to be auto_increment.

I took a look at a v1.0 zip and it's set as auto_increment there, so this is something that has not just crept into code !!!

As far as I know there are no potential bad side effects from having it set thus, apart from some side cases related to innodb.

12 Jan 2016, 6:29 PM

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Re: Why is products_description.products_id an auto-increment field?

Thanks for the updates and answers! I guess that this underscores that it's OK to ask questions.:P

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12 Jan 2016, 7:59 PM

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Re: Why is products_description.products_id an auto-increment field?

The change will be included in v155.

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