[ts-gen] Database setup by hand (was: Re: shim setup ...)

[R P Herrold]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Mike Thornton wrote:

> It turns out that there is a documented bug in mysql versions 5.1+ which
> causes the gap in the symbol tables -- the gap occurs when trying to place
> many rows in the table simultaneously.
>
> http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=40384&error=lp

ouch; this is a fairly important bug (and failing in the 
relations between the engine and the database implementaiton 
backend) in MySQL, and a great catch by tou, Mike in finding 
it.

The shim relies on contiguous uid's by and large, and the 
initially proposed workaround of doing single inserts, is a 
pretty non-compelling solution. ;(

-- Russ herrold