On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:26:48PM -0600, Eliu Montoya wrote:
> Does anyone know an easy way to insert a record (without a value for the
> primary key because it is a sequence) and at the same time obtain the value
> of primary key that was assign to this new record.
Given that you are already using a sequence, you can obtain the last
value given to you by means of currval(). No, this doesn't have any
concurrency problems with multiple backends inserting at the same time;
that's exactly the problem it solves.
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"In Europe they call me Niklaus Wirth; in the US they call me Nickel's worth.
That's because in Europe they call me by name, and in the US by value!"
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