On Mon, 17 May 2004, Milos Prudek wrote:
> > Alternatively, you could rewrite this query:
> > "INSERT INO msg (idmember,txt) VALUES (currval('members_idmember_seq'),
> > %s);"
>
> Cool. You helped me demolish 3 lines of code with no compromise in
> legibility.
Actually, if you declared idmember as SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, you could
just do:
INSERT INTO msg (txt) VALUES (%s);
and it will automagically do the Right Thing (TM). Even more readable. :)
Just look at this:
marco=# create table msg (idmember serial primary key, txt text);
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence 'msg_idmember_seq' for SERIAL column 'msg.idmember'
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE/PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index 'msg_pkey' for table 'msg'
CREATE
marco=# \d msg
Table "msg"
Attribute | Type | Modifier
-----------+---------+------------------------------------------------------
idmember | integer | not null default nextval('"msg_idmember_seq"'::text)
txt | text |
Index: msg_pkey
marco=# insert into msg (txt) values ('some string');
INSERT 12288559 1
marco=# insert into msg (txt) values ('some other string');
INSERT 12288560 1
marco=# select * from msg;
idmember | txt
----------+-------------------
1 | some string
2 | some other string
(2 rows)
See the \d output in case you wonder where the magic lies. :)
.TM.
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