From 4633d18db3aae81a05d2c93b00aaf66df046cb8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Ritt <stefan.ritt@psi.ch>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 19:38:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Calculate index for automatically incremented preset
 attributes by searching all old messages for the highest used index

SVN revision: 2073
---
 src/elogd.c | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/elogd.c b/src/elogd.c
index 01d5c931..c9830dfb 100755
--- a/src/elogd.c
+++ b/src/elogd.c
@@ -8620,14 +8620,22 @@ auto-increment tags */
       return;
    }
 
-   el_retrieve(lbs, message_id, NULL, attr_list, attrib, lbs->n_attr, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL, att, NULL, NULL);
+   /* search all entries to find largest index */
+   old_index = 0;
+   do {
+      el_retrieve(lbs, message_id, NULL, attr_list, attrib, lbs->n_attr, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL, att, NULL, NULL);
 
-   /* if date part changed, start over with inded */
-   if (strncmp(attrib[index], retstr, loc) != 0)
-      old_index = 0;
-   else
-      /* retrieve old index */
-      old_index = atoi(attrib[index] + loc);
+      /* if date part changed, start over with index */
+      if (strncmp(attrib[index], retstr, loc) != 0)
+         old_index = 0;
+      else
+         /* retrieve old index */
+         if (atoi(attrib[index] + loc) > old_index)
+            old_index = atoi(attrib[index] + loc);
+
+      message_id = el_search_message(lbs, EL_PREV, message_id, FALSE);
+
+   } while (message_id);
 
    /* increment index */
    sprintf(retstr + loc, "%0*d", len, old_index + 1);