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

[FGM]

For instance, Interbase/Firebird provides generators, but no
auto-increment.

---- Original Message ----
From: darrenoh at sidepotsinternational.com
To: development at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [development] Why do we avoid auto-incrementing db
columns?
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:28:25 -0400

>On Apr 25, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Barry Jaspan wrote:
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>The point isn't the databases we support, it's the databases we want 
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>to support.
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