Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:38:40PM -0600, Demel, Jeff wrote:
>>>> SCOPE_IDENTITY() method is going to work or not.
>>> I doubt it. What does it do?
>>
>> It returns the id of the record just inserted.
> Ah. Well, there's no in-principle notion if "id" in Postgres (OIDs
> are optional as of several versions ago). But if you have a primary
> key that's an integer you populate using a sequence, then you can use
> the currval() function to get the value of the sequence.
Also, as of 8.2 INSERT RETURNING is a good way to collect the value
of an auto-generated key field (or any other auto-generated field...)
regards, tom lane
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