How to make Wordpress category IDs sequential?

Question

I've noticed when I create a new category in one of my Wordpress 2.9.2 installations that the new category ID isn't sequential.

I have created five categories and the id's so far are: 15, 23, 34, 36, and now the newest one, 54.

This isn't really a problem, but is kind of annoying! And I haven't seen it before on other installations.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

The IDs are based on MySQL auto-incremental indexes.

Did you add or delete tags, custom terms or other categories in-between adding the ones you've mentioned?