How difficult would be be to implement working auto-increment functionality on the BlackHole engine? This would be really useful for what I'm trying to do at the moment. Since it is not available and there are no sequences in MariaDB and MySQL, I have to resort to a hack such as a single-int-field table doing the auto-increment, and an insert trigger on the blackhole table to insert a null into the auto-increment tracking table, get LAST_INSERT_ID() to set the value in the auto-increment table, and then delete the record. Even with InnoDB log files and tablespace on tmpfs this makes the performance nosedive by a factor of 4 if the trigger doesn't bother cleaning up the auto-increment table, and a factor of 13 if it deletes the record immediately after inserting it. The actual times I tested with 24 inserter threads on a 24-thread server are 8m vs. 30m vs. 105m, i.e. a massive drop. Is there an better place than this list for a feature request? Gordan