From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-01-03T14:24:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby DBI

On Friday, January 3, 2003, 3:46:32 PM, Tom wrote:

> how does one get auto generated id fields in such a way as to be
> cross-compatible?

There is no way to do this portably, AFAIK.

> or am i mistaken in using auto generated id fields in the first
> place?

It's a standard database practice, and a lot of hassle to do manually.

Gavin