Re: Getting ID of last-inserted row - Mailing list pgsql-general

From A. Kretschmer
Subject Re: Getting ID of last-inserted row
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Msg-id 20090520101719.GC539@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to Getting ID of last-inserted row  (David <wizzardx@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Getting ID of last-inserted row
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In response to David :
> Hi there.
>
> I never found an adequate (simple and efficient) method for getting
> the primary key ID of the just-inserted row, and usually used
> transactions and "select last value, ordered by id"-type queries to
> get the last id value, or other ugly logic.

use currval() instead, see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-sequence.html
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