[Phpmyadmin-devel] bug #4540: table create issue

[Marc Delisle]

Smita a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> This is in reference of bug[0] in current master. While I was debugging the
> code to fix the issue, I found that we are trying to force the column to be
> primary key if auto_increment has been checked.
> there is this comment in Table.class.php:
> // Force an auto_increment field to be part of the primary key
>             // even if user did not tick the PK box;
> 
> anyone have an idea why are we doing so ?

Hi Smita,

This is a misinterpretation of the doc. In [1] we see that the column 
must be indexed, not necessarily part of the primary key.

I have the impression that traditionally, people use the auto_increment 
mostly on the primary key but it's not mandatory.

> 
> [0] https://sourceforge.net/p/phpmyadmin/bugs/4540/
> 

[1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/create-table.html


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Marc Delisle (phpMyAdmin)