Gap in user id's

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JonathanB
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Gap in user id's

Post by JonathanB » Wed May 08, 2019 9:15 pm

Hi

I have noticed that all my user id's are in sequence then suddenly there is a jump from 782 to 4433 with no user id's in between. I have checked the users table and the usergroup_map tables and none of the ids in-between those are there. Is there a way to reset the auto increment to continue in order as i have search the complete db and cant find anywhere where this is possible or where the missing ID's might be (sorry can only do the basic's in the DB)

Thanks
Last edited by toivo on Wed May 08, 2019 9:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Pnkr
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Re: Gap in user id's

Post by Pnkr » Thu May 09, 2019 8:12 am

i dont think that you can change that and honestly... why bother??
there is no problem with that.

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AMurray
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Re: Gap in user id's

Post by AMurray » Fri May 10, 2019 11:54 pm

The ID number doesn't really mean anything to the front-end user, and is really only used to identify the user in the background. They wouldn't be numerical since the Super User for instance uses a specific ID number, and not simply the next in sequence when you created it and also if you delete users, the remaining records are not re-sorted according to that user ID field.
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