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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Re: sequence integrity insite begin-commit?
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In response to Re: sequence integrity insite begin-commit?  (Rob Brown-Bayliss <rob@ZOOstation.cc>)
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Rob Brown-Bayliss <rob@ZOOstation.cc> writes:
>> So what I am doing is begining a transaction, inserting the data,
>> selecting the last_value from the sequence and then commiting the
>> transaction.

last_value is wrong.  currval() will work.  See the many prior
discussions of sequences in the mailing list archives.

            regards, tom lane

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