On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Nacef LABIDI <nacef.l@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if postgres can return the last ID inserted for a table > which the primary key is autoincremented. I need to retrieve this ID in my > code to continue processing on that inserted row.
smarlowe=# create table test (a serial primary key, b text); NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "test_a_seq" for serial column "test.a" NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index "test_pkey" for table "test" CREATE TABLE smarlowe=# insert into test (a,b) values (DEFAULT,'test') returning a; a --- 1 (1 row)
INSERT 0 1
Note that there are other ways of doing it, but I really like the returning clause.