Choice of primary index for mysql innoDB

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Published on 2010-03-21T15:15:54Z Indexed on 2010/03/21 15:21 UTC
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I have an auction website where users can place a bid on a product. Now i have a primary index on the bid table for easy access of the last places bid on the product. This index is just a unique auto incrementing value. During the week this number becomes huge!!

I was wondering if this is a good setup for the primary key in an innoDB table.

The bids table exist of the following important fields:

table: bids fields: user_id,product_id,bid

So what i want to do is make the primary of these 3 fields combined. Is this a good idea or is this just too much for innoDB keys.

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