Defining Composite Key with Auto Increment in MySQL

Question

Scenario:

I have a table which references two foreign keys, and for each unique combination of these foreign keys, has its own auto_increment column

Answer 1

You can't have MySQL do this for you automatically for InnoDB tables - you would need to use a trigger or procedure, or user another DB engine such as MyISAM. Auto incrementing can only be done for a single primary key.

Something like the following should work

DELIMITER $$

CREATE TRIGGER xxx BEFORE INSERT ON issue_log
FOR EACH ROW BEGIN
    SET NEW.sr_no = (
       SELECT IFNULL(MAX(sr_no), 0) + 1
       FROM issue_log
       WHERE app_id  = NEW.app_id
         AND test_id = NEW.test_id
    );
END $$

DELIMITER ;