FIX Correctly clear table and reset auto increment

src/ORM/Connect/MySQLDatabase.php

@@ -569,23 +569,9 @@ public function clearTable($table)
         // Not simply using "TRUNCATE TABLE \"$table\"" because DELETE is a lot quicker
         // than TRUNCATE which is very relevant during unit testing. Using TRUNCATE will lead to an
         // approximately 50% increase it the total time of running unit tests.
-        //
-        // Using max(ID) to determine if the table should reset its auto-increment, rather than using
-        // SELECT "AUTO_INCREMENT" FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = ? AND TABLE_NAME = ?
-        // after deleting from the table, because in MySQL 8, under certain conditions, notably
-        // when running behat, sometimes the auto-increment was being reset to 2 for unknown reasons
-        $self = $this;
-        $fn = function () use ($self, $table) {
-            $maxID = $self->query("SELECT MAX(ID) FROM \"$table\"")->value();
-            $self->query("DELETE FROM \"$table\"");
-            if ($maxID > 0) {
-                $self->query("ALTER TABLE \"$table\" AUTO_INCREMENT = 1");
-            }
-        };
-        if ($this->supportsTransactions()) {
-            $this->withTransaction($fn);
-        } else {
-            $fn();
-        }
+        $this->query("DELETE FROM \"$table\"");
+        // Don't check the current AUTO_INCREMENT value first, because table stats are cached from
+        // MySQL 8.0 (for a full day by default) and will likely be out of date.
+        $this->query("ALTER TABLE \"$table\" AUTO_INCREMENT = 1")->value();
     }
 }