On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:34:22PM -0500, Ernest Kim wrote:

> I was wondering if there was a way to get the value of serial data
> type after an insert.

Use currval():

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/functions-sequence.html

Race condtions aren't a problem:

"Notice that because this is returning a session-local value, it
gives a predictable answer even if other sessions are executing
nextval meanwhile."

-- 
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

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