From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Charlie Toohey <ctoohey@pacbell.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: serial column vs. explicit sequence question
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:04:28 -0700
Message-ID: <200206131404.28257.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020613200344.1B97A476B74@postgresql.org>
References: <20020613200344.1B97A476B74@postgresql.org>
Charlie,
> Lets say I need to insert a row into the master table and N rows into the
> detail table. After inserting a row into master, and before detail, I need
to
> read the master table to obtain the value of the id for the row just
> inserted, so I can insert this id as the foreign key value for the N rows in
> the detail table.
Hey, what about CURRVAL('sequence_name')?
--
-Josh Berkus
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