Re: Fw: postgresql experts please help - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Mark Lewis wrote:

> You haven't disabled JDBC autocommit for this connection.  That means
> that each statement gets executed in a separate transaction.
>
> Since currval is only valid within the scope of a single transaction,
> and you're executing your "select currval" from a separate transaction,
> that's why you can't see it.
>

False.  currval maintains state across transactions:

jurka=# create sequence myseq;
CREATE SEQUENCE
jurka=# begin;
BEGIN
jurka=# select nextval('myseq');
  nextval
---------
        1
(1 row)

jurka=# commit;
COMMIT
jurka=# select currval('myseq');
  currval
---------
        1
(1 row)