Alternate primary key for legacy data

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I have a "journals" table (created with a rails migration but with "id" renamed to "id_journal") with auto-incrementing primary key "id_journal".

class Journal < ActiveRecord::Base   set_primary_key "id_journal" end

Despite using set_primary_key in the Journal model, I get the following error:

Mysql::Error: Failed to read auto-increment value from storage engine: INSERT INTO `journals` (`jname`, `created_at`, `updated_at`, `has_full_text_online`, `iscomplete`, `publisher`, `flagged`, `issn`, `instance`, `link`, `subjects`) VALUES('Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas (English Edition)', '2010-04-14 04:27:42', '2010-04-14 04:27:42', NULL, 0, '', 0, '', 'SD-1', '', '')

Is this an issue with ActiveRecord not recognizing the primary key, or an issue with how the database is setup? Everything worked fine when the field was named "id".

Thanks in advance!

Ben

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No. set_primary_key should work. But looks like a mysql error. There looks like mysql unable to do auto-increment. Please search online regarding this mysql error.

Try in the Irb, setting up the primary key value explicitly.

Like, Journal.insert(:id_journal=>100, :jname=>'Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas') and see the result. If this is accepted, then, some issue with auto-increment.

Cheers Amala