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by jchw 1108 days ago
Yes, sorry. My gripe is that we don't have a single general way to say "I don't really care about the specifics, I just want a number that goes roughly upward" for all database engines. SQLite is interesting in that it supports at least two distinct sets of semantics for auto-incrementing rows, but neither of them are the standard syntax...