Thread: INSERT and get ID
Hi!
Say I have done the following:
CREATE SEQUENCE myseq
CREATE TABLE foo (
id INTEGER,
val INTEGER,
PRIMARY KEY( id ) );
Is there an easy way to get the id of the newly inserted data set?
So if I do the following:
String insert = "INSERT INTO foo (id, val)
VALUES( nextval('myseq'), 5 )";
int count = statement.executeUpdate( insert );
I only get the row count of inserted rows. Do I have to query the
database again to get the id? Or is there another way? I have tried
statement.executeUpdate( insert, Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS);
but I get an PSQLException saying that the feature of auto-generated keys
is not supported. (using postgresql 8.0 JDBC3) I googled but I did only find
PostgreSQL-
specific hints, no one for JDBC.
Thanks, Peter
Peter.Zoche@materna.de wrote:
> String insert = "INSERT INTO foo (id, val)
> VALUES( nextval('myseq'), 5 )";
> int count = statement.executeUpdate( insert );
>
> I only get the row count of inserted rows. Do I have to query the
> database again to get the id?
Currently, yes. You can usually do some trickery with currval() to run
both an INSERT and a SELECT in the same statement and avoid an extra
round-trip.
> Or is there another way? I have tried
> statement.executeUpdate( insert, Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS);
> but I get an PSQLException saying that the feature of auto-generated keys
> is not supported.
Right, this really needs server-side support before we can implement it
(INSERT ... RETURNING ... or similar)
-O
On 27-Jul-05, at 8:56 AM, Peter.Zoche@materna.de wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Say I have done the following:
>
> CREATE SEQUENCE myseq
>
> CREATE TABLE foo (
> id INTEGER,
> val INTEGER,
> PRIMARY KEY( id ) );
>
> Is there an easy way to get the id of the newly inserted data set?
> So if I do the following:
>
> String insert = "INSERT INTO foo (id, val)
> VALUES( nextval('myseq'), 5 )";
> int count = statement.executeUpdate( insert );
>
> I only get the row count of inserted rows. Do I have to query the
> database again to get the id? Or is there another way? I have tried
> statement.executeUpdate( insert, Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS);
> but I get an PSQLException saying that the feature of auto-
> generated keys
> is not supported. (using postgresql 8.0 JDBC3) I googled but I did
> only find
> PostgreSQL-
> specific hints, no one for JDBC.
you can use select currval('myseq') after using nextval('myseq') this
will retrieve the value recently returned by nextval
in your session ( so it will not be over written by another connection )
>
> Thanks, Peter
>
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Peter.Zoche@materna.de schrieb:
> Hi!
>
> Say I have done the following:
>
> CREATE SEQUENCE myseq
>
> CREATE TABLE foo (
> id INTEGER,
> val INTEGER,
> PRIMARY KEY( id ) );
>
> Is there an easy way to get the id of the newly inserted data set?
> So if I do the following:
>
> String insert = "INSERT INTO foo (id, val)
> VALUES( nextval('myseq'), 5 )";
> int count = statement.executeUpdate( insert );
>
You have to do a a "SELECT curval('myseq')" after the insert.
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> You have to do a a "SELECT curval('myseq')" after the insert.
I had this in mind, too, but I am not sure if it is really safe if
there are several inserts at the same time...
It will be perfectly safe, as curval will return you the last value
created in the current session. So you can be sure it's your value
unless you use the same connection concurrently in different threads,
but in that case you would have bigger problems :-)
Cheers,
Csaba.
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 15:29, Peter.Zoche@materna.de wrote:
> > You have to do a a "SELECT curval('myseq')" after the insert.
>
> I had this in mind, too, but I am not sure if it is really safe if
> there are several inserts at the same time...
>
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Yes, it's absolutely safe!
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On 27-Jul-05, at 9:29 AM, Peter.Zoche@materna.de wrote:
>> You have to do a a "SELECT curval('myseq')" after the insert.
>>
>
> I had this in mind, too, but I am not sure if it is really safe if
> there are several inserts at the same time...
>
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Peter.Zoche@materna.de schrieb:
>>You have to do a a "SELECT curval('myseq')" after the insert.
>
>
> I had this in mind, too, but I am not sure if it is really safe if
> there are several inserts at the same time...
>
What do you mean with at the same time?
Different connections see different sequence values. So there is no
need to worry.
If you did the
insertions within the same connection, you have to ask the current value
of the sequence after each INSERT.
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If you're going to do an extra select anyway, I would do it *before* the
insert. Select the nextval from the sequence and use that as the primary
key for the insert.
Greetings,
Sebastiaan
Roland Walter wrote:
> Peter.Zoche@materna.de schrieb:
>
>>> You have to do a a "SELECT curval('myseq')" after the insert.
>>
>>
>>
>> I had this in mind, too, but I am not sure if it is really safe if
>> there are several inserts at the same time...
>>
>
> What do you mean with at the same time?
>
> Different connections see different sequence values. So there is no
> need to worry.
>
> If you did the
> insertions within the same connection, you have to ask the current value
> of the sequence after each INSERT.
>
>