Re: easy way to insert same value into 2 columns - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Csaba Nagy
Subject Re: easy way to insert same value into 2 columns
Date
Msg-id 1066303298.10511.44.camel@coppola.ecircle.de
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In response to Re: easy way to insert same value into 2 columns  (Sebastian Boeck <sebastianboeck@freenet.de>)
Responses Re: easy way to insert same value into 2 columns
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I can't 100% say it's safe to use, but no, other inserts will not
influence the value, because currval will return the last sequence value
used by the current session (i.e. the current connection). And of course
you only have concurrent inserts using different connection, right ?

HTH,
Csaba.


On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 12:11, Sebastian Boeck wrote:
> Csaba Nagy wrote:
> > For your specific question I don't know the answer.
> >
> > For this particular case you could use:
> >
> > create table your_table (
> >   id integer default nextval ('public.zeit_id_seq'::text),
> >   pos_id integer default currval ('public.zeit_id_seq'::text),
> >   ...
> > );
> >
> > That would work fine as long as you use inserts which don't specify id
> > if pos_id is not specified (otherwise the currval will throw you an
> > error cause it cannot be called without nextval being called).
> >
> > HTH,
> > Csaba.
>
> Thanks a lot, but is it save to use?
>
> Do i always get the same value, even if an other insert is changing
> the sequence >public.zeit_id_seq< just at the same time?
>
> Regards
>
> Sebastian
>
>
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