Re: How to get generated primary key? - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-15] Sven Köhler wrote:

> i know about the nextval and currval functions, but i don't like them,
> since they don't apply to tables. To get the generated key, you have to
> know the name of the sequence, not just the name of the table.

8.0 now offers the pg_get_serial_sequence function which may help you out.

> Does the JDBC-Driver implement the getGeneratedKeys() method?

No, see the many discussions of this in the archives, for example:

http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgjdbc/bugs/bugupdate.php?984

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jdbc/2004-09/msg00190.php

Kris Jurka