Change id of patient_data table?

Management and Administration
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simpleone81 wrote on Wednesday, March 19, 2014:

This is similar to the thread here but still some how different: http://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202505/thread/f2b86dcf/

Changing $pid and $pubid seems to be no problem.

My problem is with changing of column “id”.
When I tried to change “id” and “pid” to 8000, it worked well.

Then I decided to change both of them back to 6000 in myphpadmin. It appears to be fine BUT then the next patient I created has an “id” value of 8001 and “pid” has a value of 6001.

It would be nice to have the same value of id and pid (although it is not necessarily required).

Any idea on how I could change id back to a LOWER value?

thanks!

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tmccormi wrote on Thursday, March 20, 2014:

the id is auto incremented by mysql. you have no control over that. the
PID is incremented by OpenEMR based on the highest PID it can find + 1.

Tony McCormick

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tmccormi wrote on Thursday, March 20, 2014:

note: Id is internal and you should not even look at it. It’s there to
keep patient records unique and is not used otherwise.

Tony McCormick

On Mar 19, 2014 8:52 PM, “Tony McCormick” tony@mi-squared.com wrote:

the id is auto incremented by mysql. you have no control over that. the
PID is incremented by OpenEMR based on the highest PID it can find + 1.

Tony McCormick
www.mi-squared.com

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simpleone81 wrote on Thursday, March 20, 2014:

I see - I was thinking that it would be ‘nice’ to have them (id and pid) aligned. But your comments make sense. thanks Tony.