note 82367 added to function.mysql-insert-id

I don't get all the fuss around this. I read: "The value of mysql_insert_id() is affected only by statements issued within the current client connection. It is not affected by statements issued by other clients." See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/es/mysql-insert-id.html I can't really see what's inaccurate about that. "In the case of a multiple-row INSERT statement, mysql_insert_id() returns the first automatically generated AUTO_INCREMENT value; if no such value is generated, it returns the last last explicit value inserted into the AUTO_INCREMENT column." I must be missing something here but why would you insert multiple rows and then only handle the last one with some favoured behaviour? You could just as well insert them one at a time and then handle each row separately with the latest id. I can't see what's wrong with that. However I can see what's wrong with simply using max(my_table.id_column) because of the concurrent access issues this would imply. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 80.200.253.235 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-insert-id.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/82367 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82367/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82367/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82367/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82367/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82367/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82367/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82367 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/82367 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php