Re: [development] Why do we avoid auto-incrementing db columns?

Larry Garfield wrote:

(And before anyone thinks I'm suggesting we drop MyISAM support, I am not saying anything of the sort. <g>)

Not wanting to add fuel to any fire, but I think this is an interesting discussion to have in the context of "the drop is always moving". I don't want to make a judgment either way, but if Drupal is to be compatible with arguably an old way of "doing" databases then it definitely complicates the questions of: should it work on PHP3? should Drupal be more indulgent towards backwards-compatibility? Or the converse argument: that Drupal's development methodology works well, but instead calls into question support for MyISAM tables. Cheers, J-P