How to script inserts where id is needed as fk

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From: Michael Schmidt <css.liquid@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: How to script inserts where id is needed as fk
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 20:44:42 +0100
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Hi guys,

i need to script some insert statements. To simplify it a little bit so 
assume i got a

table "User" and a table called "Article". Both tables have an serial id 
column. In "Articles" there is a column i need to fill with the user id 
lets call it "create_user_id".

I want to do something like:

Insert into User (name) values ('User1');

Insert into Article ('create_user_id') values (1);
Insert into Article ('create_user_id') values (1);

Insert into User (name) values ('User2');

Insert into Article ('create_user_id') values (2);
Insert into Article ('create_user_id') values (2);

So you see i have set it to 1 and 2 this not good cause it might not be 
1 and 2.
I probably need the id returned by the "insert into User" query to use 
it for the "insert into Article" query.

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