Re: sequence aliases? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: sequence aliases?
Date
Msg-id 20051106122236.GB20590@svana.org
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In response to Re: sequence aliases?  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: sequence aliases?  (CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com>)
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On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:15:45AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>
> > My advice to the Rails people would be to fix whatever it is in their
> > code that is assuming a particular sequence name, or indeed assuming
> > a sequence at all...
>
> Well how else do you find the id of the last inserted record without assuming
> a sequence?

I suppose using something like:

select currval( pg_get_serial_sequence( 'table','col' ) );

That avoids hardcoding the sequence id. Not assuming a sequences at all
may be trickier.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.

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