Subject RE: [firebird-support] Auto-increment generating old ID's for insertion
Author Joje

Hi Mark,

 

Below is details of database properties

 

Database header page information:

Version:                               WI-V2.5.4.26856 Firebird 2.5

                Flags                                      0

                Checksum                           12345

                Generation                         941170

                Page size                             4096

                ODS version                       11.2

                Oldest transaction           941159

                Oldest active                      941160

                Oldest snapshot                               941160

                Next transaction              941161

                Bumped transaction       1

                Sequence number          0

                Next attachment ID        56

                Implementation ID          26

                Shadow count                   0

                Page buffers                      0

                Next header page           0

                Database dialect               3

                Attributes                           force write

    Variable header data:

                Sweep interval:                20000

Allocated pages:               603479

 

*END*

 

On the affected table that is transaction table(‘trnTable’), I am using triggers to generate ID’s. Below I am pasting queries for generating the unique IDs

 

Trigger that calls generator is fired on insertion:

CREATE TRIGGER 'BI_ID' FOR ‘trnTable’

ACTIVE BEFORE

  INSERT

POSITION 0

AS

BEGIN

  IF (NEW._ID IS NULL) THEN

      NEW._ID = GEN_ID(_ID_GEN, 1);

END

 

Generator:

CREATE GENERATOR _ID_GEN;

SET GENERATOR _ID_GEN TO 16594028

 

 

 

Thank you.

 

With Regards,

Joje T. George

 

 

 

From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 02 April 2018 09:27 PM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Auto-increment generating old ID's for insertion

 

 

On 2-4-2018 14:11, 'Joje' joje@... [firebird-support]
wrote:

> I have issue where auto-increment of ID column is generating older ID’s
> that is already used in table.
>
> Currently, my transaction table has around 16 million rows and *ID of
> last inserted row is 16,594,027*.  While the *generator ID its
> 16,593,965*.  As you can see the generator is generating ID’s that is
> already present in table which causes *violation of PRIMARY or UNIQUE
> KEY constraint "INTEG_105"*error on that table.
>
> I managed to fix this issue, recently I am facing it frequently on this
> transaction table, majority of the tables had number of recor ds are
> more than 2 million or there is connectivity issues with DB.
>
> Now, I am wondering is this related to Firebird DB or is there any other
> issue.
Which version of Firebird are you using (full version please)?

Do you have code that generates its own IDs? Do you have code that tries
to manipulate the value using `GEN_ID(<seq_name>, -1)` (or another
negative value), `ALTER SEQUENCE seq_name RESTART WITH new_val` or `SET
GENERATOR seq_name TO new_val`? Do you allow your code to specify its
own IDs instead of using the sequence?

It could be a bug in Firebird, but we would really need to see a
reproducible case.

Mark
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Mark Rotteveel