On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 14:59:33 -0600,
Suchandra Thapa <s-thapa-11@alumni.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> I was wondering if there was a reliable method to get the last id
> inserted into a serial column in a table. I believe previous
> recommendations given were to use a sequence, have your app get the
> nextval for the sequence and then use that in the insert. I was
> wondering if things had changed or if that is still the recommended
> method.
It is probably a little better to use currval rather than remembering
what nextval returned in your application.
