Re: Nextval & Currval - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From A. Kretschmer
Subject Re: Nextval & Currval
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Msg-id 20080610102951.GD25980@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to Nextval & Currval  ("Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe" <shavonne.marietta@studioform.it>)
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am  Tue, dem 10.06.2008, um 11:56:39 +0200 mailte Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe folgendes:
> Hello
>  
> I'm using Nextval and Currval in my ASP programme. But everytime i run the code
> only the nextval record is inserted and the currval record is lost. I wrote the
> INSERT INTO in the log and when i tried it via pgadmin both the records were
> inserted correctly, so there is no syntax error.
> I thought the problem would be the connection to the DB. I connect to the DB in
> the same ASP page where I do the INSERT INTO.
>  
> What am i doing wrong?? Any ideas anyone??

I don't know your code, but nextval() returns the next sequence number
from a sequence and currval() returns the last with nextval() generated
sequence-number WITHIN THIS SESSION.


In a new session you can't use currval() first, you need to call
nextval() and later you can use currval().



Regards, Andreas
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