There aren't multiple connections. It is a CGI program. One connection is made when the program starts, and that is all.
I've looked at the log. It shows just what I expect, except that the lookup does not work. 0 rows are returned from the select of the newly inserted id. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com>wrote: > On 04/16/2014 05:24 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: > >> I marked it volatile, and still the next time I call the function after >> the first insert, using the previous new id as as input parameter, it >> still can't "find" the newly inserted id for the next go-round. Nor can >> any regular SELECTs in the main program find it. >> > > To expand on my earlier post and to address all the different scenarios > proposed, it might to be a good idea to expand on what you are logging. The > caveat is whether you are working against a production server or a > development. In the development case you would presumably be able to more > easily limit the scope of what you are observing. In that case turning up > the log_statement to 'all' in postgresql.conf would give you a picture of > what is actually hitting the database. So you could see if there where > multiple connections happening or multiple transactions in a connection or > if different tables where being used, etc. That would help create some > anchor points from which you could backwards engineer to possible causes. > > >> Susan >> >> >> > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.kla...@aklaver.com >