From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-07-29T15:00:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Stupid ODBC!

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:04:07 +0900, Carl Youngblood
<carl.youngblood@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why not take the approach of using a autoid function if you have it
> but creating an extra table for storing counters if you don't?  This
> seems like a perfectly acceptable solution.

This is most certainly not acceptable for my current needs, since
several of the databases I would like to access via Active Record are
production systems, and there is no conceivable way I could bring
about schema changes to a live instance.

Lennon