MySQL: Grouped primary key with InnoDB

Question

Is there an equivalent to a grouped primary key using an InnoDB MySQL database and allowing auto-increment on the second key?

What I am trying to implement is a table to

Answer 1

In case this can help anyone else this was my solution.

I could not simply use a trigger as MySQL does not yet (or at least my version 5.1.53) support the ability to use a trigger to update the table the trigger is called on. So I created a sequence table:

CREATE TABLE image_seq (
    parent_id INT(11) NOT NULL,
    catagory INT(11) NOT NULL,
    next_seq_id INT(11) NOT NULL,
    KEY(catagory),
    PRIMARY KEY(parent_id, catagory);
);

And then created a trigger on the images table:

CREATE TRIGGER bi_image_trig
BEFORE INSERT ON images
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN

DECLARE id INT UNSIGNED DEFAULT 1;
 SELECT next_seq_id + 1 INTO id FROM image_seq WHERE parent_id=NEW.parent_id AND       catagory=NEW.catagory;
SET NEW.image_id = id;
UPDATE image_seq SET next_seq_id=id WHERE parent_id=NEW.parent_id AND catagory=NEW.catagory;

END;

Not sure if its the optimal solution but it works and allows me to keep track of image numbers in catagories for each parent object.

Answer 2

there can be only one auto column and it must be defined as a key. check this

CREATE TABLE images (
   parent_id INT(11) NOT NULL,
   image_id INT(11) Not Null  AUTO_INCREMENT, 
   source_url VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
   caption VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,

   key(image_id),                          -- add as a key       
   PRIMARY KEY(parent_id, image_id)
) ENGINE = InnoDB;