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From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Insert Data and autonumeric field
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 13:13:05 -0500
Message-ID: <20070201181305.GC7985@phlogiston.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E426DDFE0FB5634AA3C997254DCBDE4EDF3C91@cgexc04.compugraf.com.br>
References: <E426DDFE0FB5634AA3C997254DCBDE4EDF3C91@cgexc04.compugraf.com.br>

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:09:22PM -0300, André José Guergolet wrote:
> PROBLEM: Many clients are getting duplicated IDs.
> 
> What is the best way of doing this?

Use a sequence.  You can get the current value of the sequence with
SELECT currval('seqname').  No, there's not a race condition; see the
docs.

A

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Andrew Sullivan  | ajs@crankycanuck.ca
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