john
There is no operating system but linux and linus is its kernel maintainer.
Sometime in August Horst Herb assaulted keyboard and produced...
|On Monday 06 August 2001 08:47, harrold@sage.che.pitt.edu wrote:
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|> i was under the impression that nextval would give what the nextval would
|> be. i didnt think it was suppose to increment it. after reading your
|> response and someone else's it seems i need to get the next value of the
|> key and insert it explicitly is that correct?
|
|Yes. Alternatively, you can let Postgres use nextval implicitly, and call
|currval afterwards to get the value of the inserted "nextval"
|
thanks.
one more question. what can i do to prevent another insert from taking
place before the currval request is made? is this even an issue aslong as
the currval query is executed using the same connection?
john
