I had a similar issue, I solved it and since this comes up high on Google for what I was looking for it may help others.
I migrated several WordPress databases from AWS RDS MySQL to MySQL running on an EC2 instance, using the database migration service. What I didn’t know is it doesn’t copy indexes, keys, auto increment, or really anything other than the basics. Of course the best approach would be to dump the database using mysqldump and import it manually, but one WordPress install had significant changes and I didn’t want to redo them. Instead I manually recreated the auto_increment values and indexes.
I’ve documented how I fixed WordPress auto increment here on my website, here’s a copy of what worked for me. It’s possible I’ll make further changes, I’ll update the website but I may not remember to update this question.
ALTER TABLE wp_termmeta MODIFY COLUMN meta_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment;
ALTER TABLE wp_terms MODIFY COLUMN term_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment;
ALTER TABLE wp_term_taxonomy MODIFY COLUMN term_taxonomy_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment;
ALTER TABLE wp_commentmeta MODIFY COLUMN meta_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment;
ALTER TABLE wp_comments MODIFY COLUMN comment_ID bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment;
ALTER TABLE wp_links MODIFY COLUMN link_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment;
ALTER TABLE wp_options MODIFY COLUMN option_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment;
ALTER TABLE wp_postmeta MODIFY COLUMN meta_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment;
ALTER TABLE wp_users MODIFY COLUMN ID bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment;
ALTER TABLE wp_posts MODIFY COLUMN ID bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment;
ALTER TABLE wp_usermeta MODIFY COLUMN umeta_id bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment;
CREATE INDEX term_id on wp_termmeta (term_id);
CREATE INDEX meta_key on wp_termmeta (meta_key(191));
CREATE INDEX slug on wp_terms (slug(191));
CREATE INDEX name on wp_terms (name(191));
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX term_id_taxonomy on wp_term_taxonomy (term_id, taxonomy);
CREATE INDEX taxonomy on wp_term_taxonomy (taxonomy );
CREATE INDEX comment_id on wp_commentmeta (comment_id);
CREATE INDEX meta_key on wp_commentmeta (meta_key(191));
CREATE INDEX comment_post_ID on wp_comments (comment_post_ID);
CREATE INDEX comment_approved_date_gmt on wp_comments (comment_approved,comment_date_gmt);
CREATE INDEX comment_date_gmt on wp_comments (comment_date_gmt);
CREATE INDEX comment_parent on wp_comments (comment_parent);
CREATE INDEX comment_author_email on wp_comments (comment_author_email(10));
CREATE INDEX link_visible on wp_links (link_visible);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX option_name on wp_options (option_name);
CREATE INDEX post_id on wp_postmeta (post_id);
CREATE INDEX meta_key on wp_postmeta (meta_key);
CREATE INDEX post_name on wp_posts (post_name(191));
CREATE INDEX type_status_date on wp_posts (post_type,post_status,post_date,ID);
CREATE INDEX post_parent on wp_posts (post_parent);
CREATE INDEX post_author on wp_posts (post_author);
CREATE INDEX user_login_key on wp_users (user_login);
CREATE INDEX user_nicename on wp_users (user_nicename);
CREATE INDEX user_email on wp_users (user_email);
CREATE INDEX user_id on wp_usermeta (user_id);
CREATE INDEX meta_key on wp_usermeta (meta_key(191));
ALTER TABLE wp_terms AUTO_INCREMENT = 10000;
ALTER TABLE wp_term_taxonomy AUTO_INCREMENT = 10000;
ALTER TABLE wp_commentmeta AUTO_INCREMENT = 10000;
ALTER TABLE wp_comments AUTO_INCREMENT = 10000;
ALTER TABLE wp_links AUTO_INCREMENT = 10000;
ALTER TABLE wp_options AUTO_INCREMENT = 10000;
ALTER TABLE wp_postmeta AUTO_INCREMENT = 10000;
ALTER TABLE wp_users AUTO_INCREMENT = 10000;
ALTER TABLE wp_posts AUTO_INCREMENT = 10000;
ALTER TABLE wp_usermeta AUTO_INCREMENT = 10000;
Notes
- You should check your tables and make sure to set your auto_increment to a value that makes sense for that table.
- If you get the error “alter table causes auto_increment resequencing resulting in duplicate entry 1” (or 0, or something else). This is usually fixed by deleting the entry with the ID 0 or 1 in the table. Note that you should be careful doing this as it could delete an important row.