Re: GetLastInsertID ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dave Cramer
Subject Re: GetLastInsertID ?
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Msg-id 1072993871.1662.43.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: GetLastInsertID ?  (Mike Nolan <nolan@gw.tssi.com>)
Responses Re: GetLastInsertID ?
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Yes, it will

curval is the curval for *this* connection, not the current value for
the sequence!

Dave
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 16:37, Mike Nolan wrote:
> > > the last inserted id in the table like we do with MySQL using the
> > > GetLastInsertID ?
> > >
> > > My need is to get back the new id just after inserting.
> >
> > Use currval() after you have inserted.
>
> That will not necessarily tell you the last insertion, depending
> upon how many other users there are doing inserts.
>
> For that matter, I'm not sure that the MySQL method works with multiple
> users either.
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