From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Poovendran Moodley <poovenm@gmail.com>
Cc: A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SQL INSERT/TRIGGER Help
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:08:05 -0300
Message-ID: <20071210140805.GD8036@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
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Poovendran Moodley escribió:
> I'm not really sure how to the *currval() *method. I've read up on it and I
> noticed it works with *nextval()* and *setval()*. The parameter for *
> currval()* is a regex - is there a regex to represent the most recently
> automatically generated number ( i.e. a serial field)?
It's not a regex. I assume you are confused because it says "regclass".
This is shorthand for "registered class" (where "class" is a synonymous
for "relation", in this case a sequence).
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/5ZYLFMCVHXC
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