From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Roy Souther <roy@SiliconTao.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Insert race hazard condition.
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:07:59 -0600
Message-ID: <20030325200759.GB14216@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1048622477.2643.44.camel@UtopiaPlanetia.Ept>
References: <1048622477.2643.44.camel@UtopiaPlanetia.Ept>
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 13:01:17 -0700,
Roy Souther <roy@SiliconTao.com> wrote:
> First of all I am a programmer not an DBA expert.
>
> For a long time now when I create a table I have an index field that is
> of type int4 to be the primary key. All of the queries and activity on
> each record uses this field to do the posting, manipulating and reading
> of data to and from tables.
[snip]
> Is there a better way to do this? How do DBAs with a lot of connections
> safely create new records?
The short answer is to use sequences. Use currval to get the value assigned
earlier in the same transaction.
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