What happens when I exhaust a bigint generated key? How to handle it?

Question

I can\'t imagine for myself a good answer for this, so I thought of asking it here. In my mind, I\'m always wondering what will happen if the AUTO INCREMENT PRIMARY ID

Answer 1

Once Autoincrement hit the limit for the field size, INSERTs will generate an error.

In practical you will get the following type of error:

ERROR 1467 (HY000): Failed to read auto-increment value from storage engine

For more info visit:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/example-auto-increment.html