Re: "RETURNING PRIMARY KEY" syntax extension - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 6/9/14, 8:35 AM, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> On 06/09/2014 06:58 AM, Ian Barwick wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The JDBC API provides the getGeneratedKeys() method as a way of
>> retrieving
>> primary key values without the need to explicitly specify the primary key
>> column(s).
> Is it defined by the standard, to return _only_ generated primary keys,
> and not
> for example generated alternate keys ?

I was wondering that myself. I think it's certainly reasonable to expect someone would wan RETURNING SEQUENCE VALUES,
whichwould return the value of every column that owned a sequence (ie: ALTER SEQUENCE ... OWNED BY). ISTM that would
certainlyhandle the performance aspect of this, and it sounds more in line with what I'd expect getGeneratedKeys() to
do.
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