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Subject: Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign
From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
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On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:37, Ashley Cambrell wrote:
> This would also get around the problem of getting values from newly 
> inserted rows (eg PKs) without resorting to OIDs.

That's not a problem: ensure that the newly inserted row has a SERIAL
column, and use currval().

Cheers,

Neil

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