From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Phillip Smith <fukawi2@iinet.net.au>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [Re: PRIMARY KEY]
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:03:32 -0600
Message-ID: <20070309150332.GC23704@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1173270012.4925.66.camel@phillip-desktop>
References: <1173270012.4925.66.camel@phillip-desktop>
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 23:20:12 +1100,
Phillip Smith <fukawi2@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> If you actually need to know the value of N_GEN in your ASP application,
> you will need to query the database first and select the NEXTVAL from
> the sequence that the "serial" data type will create, then use that
> returned value in your insert - ie, DON'T exclude it from the insert,
> otherwise it will default to NEXTVAL again and return a different value.
In 8.2, you can also use the RETURNING clause to get those values.
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