Re: Getting last insert value - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Guillaume LELARGE
Subject Re: Getting last insert value
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Msg-id 200311151640.42892.gleu@wanadoo.fr
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In response to Getting last insert value  (Yasir Malik <ymalik@cs.stevens-tech.edu>)
Responses Re: Getting last insert value  (Guillaume LELARGE <gleu@wanadoo.fr>)
Re: Getting last insert value  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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Le Samedi 15 Novembre 2003 15:18, vous avez écrit :
> Hello,
> I have a table with many fields, and one of the fields is of type serial.
> I will do many inserts, and there will be many repeats of the other fields
> in the table, but, obviously, the serial field will be unique for all the
> rows.  How can I get the value of serial field of the last row I inserted.
> I know I can select the maximum value from the serial field, but is there
> a better way, preferably something that takes constant time.
> Thanks,
> Yasir Malik
>
Doing a "select currval() from my_table" after your insert should work.

For more details, see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/functions-sequence.html


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