Re: going crazy with serial type - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jan Wieck
Subject Re: going crazy with serial type
Date
Msg-id 200201312121.g0VLLtA08512@saturn.janwieck.net
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In response to Re: going crazy with serial type  (Darren Ferguson <darren@crystalballinc.com>)
Responses Re: going crazy with serial type  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Darren Ferguson wrote:
> For some reason unknown to myself if you have not initiated a nextval in
> the same psql command line before calling currval then that is the error
> msg you will get.

    Slightly  wrong. This is the correct behaviour if you haven't
    called NEXTVAL in that session before.

    The reason is that the SQL standard  defines  CURRVAL  to  be
    last value returned by NEXTVAL "in this session".


Jan

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