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From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Get the last inserted id
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:57:44 -0400
Message-ID: <20080411175744.GA29043@crankycanuck.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f16f7ea00804111023xc2072ddk796b1e0336c14aac@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f16f7ea00804111023xc2072ddk796b1e0336c14aac@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 07:23:04PM +0200, Nacef LABIDI wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering if postgres can return the last ID inserted for a table
> which the primary key is autoincremented. I need to retrieve this ID in my
> code to continue processing on that inserted row.

Use select currval() on the sequence name.

A



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