> > OK, but you still need to be careful. That trick will only work if you > insert rows one at a time into the table. If you have a single insert > that inserts multiple rows (as in my example), it would fail because > the currval() call would return the same value for each row in the > insert created by the rule. >
My advice would be to convert to triggers. > After going over your example a bit better, I think I will follow your advice. Thanks a lot for the heads up. Kind regards from Iceland, Gissur Þórhallsson