Re: SQL Help - Obtaining ID of record INSERTED - Mailing list pgsql-admin

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 17:09:04 -0400,
  "josh@segrestfarms.com" <josh@segrestfarms.com> wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> INSERT INTO
>    orderstemp (customerid,datecreated)
> VALUES
>    ('5443','8/16/2005 12:00PM')
>
> The table orderstemp has a unique identifier field, orderid (of type
> SERIAL).
>
> How can I obtain the orderid of the record inserted in the INSERT INTO
> statement in postgresql?
>
> MSSQL does it like this:
>
> INSERT INTO
>    orderstemp (customerid,datecreated)
> VALUES
>    ('5443','8/16/2005 12:00PM')
> SELECT @@identity as orderid
>
> but this doens't work in postgresql.
>
> Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.

You want to use currval. In 8.0 you would use:
SELECT currval(pg_get_serial_sequence('orderstemp', 'orderid'));