Re: Problems with transactions and sequences - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 28 Aug 2003 at 14:35, Sune Nielsen wrote:
> INSERT INTO Users (name) VALUES ('JohnDoe');
> SELECT CURRVAL('users_bid_seq');
>
> This works perfectly(!), but my project involves multiple simultanous
> users so I have to use transactions like this:
>
> BEGIN;
> INSERT INTO Users (name) VALUES ('JohnDoe');
> SELECT CURRVAL('users_bid_seq');
> COMMIT;

You need to extract the current val first and explicitly use it in insert
statement. That way you won't have to produce work-arounds later..

Bye
 Shridhar

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