On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:57:12 -0500
"Passynkov, Vadim" <Vadim.Passynkov@pathcom.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Erik Thiele [mailto:erik@thiele-hydraulik.de]
> > Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 3:42 AM
> > To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
> > Subject: [SQL] get sequence value of insert command
> >
> > create sequence mysequence;
> >
> > create table foo(
> > id integer default nextval('mysequence'),
> > bla text,
> > wombat integer,
> > foobar date,
> > primary key(id)
> > );
> >
> > insert into foo (wombat) values (88);
> >
> > now how do i know the id of my newly inserted element? and
> > how can this be done in a completely concurrency safe way?
>
> CREATE RULE get_pkey_on_insert AS ON INSERT TO foo DO SELECT
> currval('mysequence') AS id LIMIT 1;
now that one is really great! you should definitly add it to the
faq. plus an additional explanation why the limit 1 is needed here.
thanks!
erik
