Comments - Support for non auto_increment keys
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It is not a bug but a part of the limitation. The key can be a PRIMARY KEY (or it can be an ordinary non-unique index), but either way it must be on an AUTO_INCREMENT column.
I agree that this part is worth rephrasing, for clarity.