On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:50:30 -0800,
"Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders@acm.org> wrote:
>
> I'm inserting some values into a table with a serial field. This is being
> done using Perl and the DBI. I then pull back using 'last_value' what I
> hope is the value for the insert. The thought came to mind that if the
> database is getting hit pretty hard there may be another access of the
> sequence and last_value will be wrong 'for me'.
> Question is how do I insure I get the correct last-value? Enclose in a
> BEGIN/END block? (How's that done using Perl? - my DBI book isn't at
> hand).
You want to use currval. This can be used within a single session safely.
