X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Received: from net2.micro-automation.com (net2.micro-automation.com [64.7.141.29]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11E92474E44 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:06:12 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 8949 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2003 16:06:15 -0000 Received: from eboxwest.ebox.com (HELO ?192.168.1.32?) (206.51.23.194) by net2.micro-automation.com with SMTP; 21 Mar 2003 16:06:15 -0000 Subject: Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign From: Dave Cramer To: Bruce Momjian Cc: Tom Lane , PostgreSQL Development In-Reply-To: <200303211554.h2LFsIf29529@candle.pha.pa.us> References: <200303211554.h2LFsIf29529@candle.pha.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Cramer Consulting Message-Id: <1048262774.1112.140.camel@inspiron.cramers> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 Date: 21 Mar 2003 11:06:14 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) X-Archive-Number: 200303/916 X-Sequence-Number: 37162 Tom, Forgive me for being dense, but how do you delineate this as being a "language issue"? Dave On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 10:54, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Dave Cramer writes: > > > I am wondering if it would be possible to return the value of the first > > > serial field in the row that was incremented on an insert ? > > > > That's a language issue, not a protocol issue, and no I'm not taking it > > on for 7.4. > > What I was wondering is if we could create a currval() call that takes > no arguments, and returns the most recent sequence id assigned. -- Dave Cramer Cramer Consulting