Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 15:11:04 -0500
From: Yasir Malik <ymalik@cs.stevens-tech.edu>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Guillaume LELARGE <gleu@wanadoo.fr>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Getting last insert value
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Thank you all for your help.
Yasir Malik

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Greg Stark wrote:

> Date: 15 Nov 2003 12:50:28 -0500
> From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
> To: Guillaume LELARGE <gleu@wanadoo.fr>
> Cc: Yasir Malik <ymalik@cs.stevens-tech.edu>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [SQL] Getting last insert value
>
>
> Guillaume LELARGE <gleu@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>
> > Doing a "select currval() from my_table" after your insert should work.
>
> That's "select currval('my_table_pkcol_seq')" actually.
>
> The above would have called the currval() function for every record of the
> table which isn't what you want and in any case currval takes an argument.
>
> --
> greg
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