Re: [HACKERS] Getting unique ID through SQL

2001-03-05 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Patrick, With PostgreSQL, I do this inside PL/PGSQL functions (but I'll do it outside a function here to make it simpler) : Lets say you have : foobar=# create table demonstration (barfoo serial, data varchar(10)); NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence 'demonstration_barfoo_seq

[HACKERS] Getting unique ID through SQL

2001-03-04 Thread Patrick Dunford
People will have seen my post on problems with PostgreSQL ODBC driver and MS Access 97. Access 97 has some problems when a record is added that contains a primary key field of type SERIAL. This has something to do with the fact that the value of the primary key is not actually generated until the