Weird problem w. mysql 4.0 when inserting into a table with auto_incremet

Question

Since I upgraded my mysql database from 3.23 to 4.0.1
the following code does not work anymore:
I get this error msg:
<b>"Invalid argument value: Duplicate entry '2147483647' for key 1"</b>
<code>
package mysql4test;
import java.sql.*;
class test {
public test() {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Connection connection = null;
Statement st = null;
try {
Class.forName("org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver").newInstance();
connection = DriverManager.getConnection
("jdbc:mysql://192.168.0.4/x?user=x&password=");
st = connection.createStatement();
for (int i=1;i<10;i++)
String insert = "insert into x (b) values('hello');";
System.out.println(insert);
st.executeUpdate(insert);
} catch (Exception ex) { System.err.println(ex.getMessage());}
</code>
The table definition of table x is the following:
create table x(a int(11) primary key auto_increment, b varchar(10));
What makes the thing even more mysterious is, that doing the same thing as this programm does manually on an mysql client does not produces any error message.
insert into x (b) values('hello'); works fine on the mysql client deliverd with the server.

Answer 1

Hi eggsurplus!
Yes, I succeeded in different ways to solve the problem. changing the table was one of it. but the problem is that i can't simply change all tables (there are a lot) as the are used in other programms.
The simplest solution that i figured out so far was changing the insert from
insert into x (b) values('hello')
to
insert into x (a,b) values("+i+",'hello')"
But this solution is still not satisfactory as in more complex programs you can't just use the i variable of the for loop, but you have to add a new variable that increments on every insert.
This still means changing a lot of code that i wrote for mysql 3.x.
Besides, i tried also another jdbc driver and it still didn't work.
The same bug was reported in a PHP forum, but without solution