mysql中的auto_increment的问题

今儿在逛论坛时，发现一个看似很简单的问题，却引起了大家的广泛关注：

这是一道很早的面试题：

一张表,里面有ID自增主键,当insert了17条记录之后,删除了第15,16,17条记录,再把Mysql重启,再insert一条记录,这条记录的ID是18还是15 。

答案：

如果表的类型是MyISAM，那么是18。 
因为MyISAM表会把自增主键的最大ID记录到数据文件里，重启MySQL自增主键的最大ID也不会丢失。 
如果表的类型是InnoDB，那么是15。 
InnoDB表只是把自增主键的最大ID记录到内存中，所以重启数据库或者是对表进行OPTIMIZE操作，都会导致最大ID丢失。 

自己也做了个实验，结果证实了上面的说法。真是惭愧啊，看似简单的问题自己也打错了。

mysql> select * from test1;
+----+-----------+
| id | name      |
+----+-----------+
|  1 | 陈兵辉    |
|  2 | chen      |
|  3 | chen      |
|  4 | chen      |
|  5 | chen      |
|  6 | chen      |
|  7 | chen      |
|  8 | chen      |
|  9 | chen      |
| 10 | chen      |
| 11 | chen      |
+----+-----------+
11 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> delete from test1 where id in (10,11,9);
Query OK, 3 rows affected (0.03 sec)

mysql> show create table test1;
 CREATE TABLE `test1` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `name` varchar(10) default NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=12 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 |
mysql> exit;
Bye
[root@fsailing1 ~]# service mysqld restart
停止 MySQL：                                               [确定]
启动 MySQL：                                               [确定]
[root@fsailing1 ~]# mysql -uroot -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 2
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mysql> use test;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed
mysql> show create table test1;
| CREATE TABLE `test1` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `name` varchar(10) default NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=9 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 |

2，另外还有一个就是获取当前数据库表的自增字段数。

mysql> select last_insert_id();
+------------------+
| last_insert_id() |
+------------------+
|                0 |
+------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)