Re: [GENERAL] Value of serial data type after insert.

2004-11-13 Thread Michael Fuhr
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 i

[GENERAL] Value of serial data type after insert.

2004-11-13 Thread Ernest Kim
I was wondering if there was a way to get the value of serial data type after an insert. For example, you have the following table: create table my_names ( id serial unique, name varchar(10) ); And then you do the following: insert into my_names values ('Ernie'); How