equivalent to Oracle's INSERT ... RETURNING

Is there an equivalent to Oracle's INSERT ... RETURNING? Note that there is a related discussion in the archives about getting the auto-incremented id, but that doesn't cover the more general case of wanting to retrieve a value that has been altered by a trigger into a variable. thanks in

Spatial and InnoDB: WHEN?

There have been a couple of threads about the lack of spatial support with InnoDB tables. What is the timeline for its implementation? Paul? thanks in advance, Chuck