hi, i think you should just use the pg_lastoid function available in C
or PHP.
in sql you can reference the last oid with :OID
In article <20030206140855.A06E21CB1D9@koshin.dsl.systemec.nl>,
jules.alberts@arbodienst-limburg.nl says...
> Hello everybody,
>
> Here's a question I have asked some time ago and Google tells me I'm
> not the only one with this problem, but I haven't found a solution yet
> :-(. I have a setup like this:
>
> customer {id serial, name varchar, address bigint}
> person {id serial, name varchar, address bigint}
> address {id serial, street varchar}
>
> customer.address points to address.id
> person.address points to address.id
>
> So, addresses are stored in a seperate table, customer.address and
> person.address should have a value that exists in address.id. When I
> add an address for customer X, I must do something like:
>
> insert into address (street) values ('Penny Lane');
> update customer set address = ??? where name = 'X';
>
> If I would do this in pgsql there would be no problem, because the OID
> is echoed when the update succeeds. But I use PHP or pl/pgsql (others
> have exactly the same problem with JDBC) and I know of no way to solve
> this. Something like lastval() IMHO is way too risky. I need something
> like a return value:
>
> catchOID = returnQueryOID('insert into address (street)
> values ('Penny Lane'));
> update customer set address = 'select id from address where
> oid = catchOID' where name = 'X';
>
> Sorry for any syntax errors in my examples (it's half semi code), I
> hope you understand the problem. If somebody knows a good solution, IMO
> this would be something to put in a FAQ, because exactly the same
> question arises when you do an insert on a table where the primary key
> is generated automatically and you want to show the result after the
> row is updated (which is very common).
>
> TIA for any help, I really need a solution...
>
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