On Jun 1, 2007, at 15:00 , Tom Lane wrote:

Michael Glaesemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On May 31, 2007, at 11:46 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, I wondered, if I were in an environment where there were many concurrent inserts, would it be possible that I didn't get the serial
number of the insert that *I* just did?

No.

Uh, yes, because he was using "SELECT last_value FROM seq" which is
indeed subject to race conditions.  currval() would be far safer.

I read that much too quickly. My apologies, lawpoop. And thanks, Tom.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net



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