On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 01:23 +0000, Terrence Brannon wrote:

> During development, I often want to quickly see if a table just
> successfully inserted a new record.
>
> In MySQL, a field can be used this way. Are there any drawbacks to
> using such a field? Of course inserts will be a bit slower. But it is
> certainly useful in a dev environment.

I prefer to count the number of rows before and after an operation
instead of relying on the side effect of a change to hint that the right
thing happened.

-- c