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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
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Organization: Aglio Database Solutions
To: Charlie Toohey <ctoohey@pacbell.net>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: serial column vs. explicit sequence question
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:04:28 -0700
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Charlie,

> Lets say I need to insert a row into the master table and N rows into the=
=20
> detail table. After inserting a row into master, and before detail, I nee=
d=20
to=20
> read the master table to obtain the value of the id for the row just=20
> inserted, so I can insert this id as the foreign key value for the N rows=
 in=20
> the detail table.=20

Hey, what about CURRVAL('sequence_name')?

--=20
-Josh Berkus