Re: [SQL] Getting last insert value

2003-11-19 Thread Yasir Malik
Guillaume, Thank you very much for your response. Yasir On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Guillaume LELARGE wrote: > Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:41:41 + > From: Guillaume LELARGE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SQL] Getting last insert value > > Le Samed

Re: [SQL] Getting last insert value

2003-11-15 Thread Theodore Petrosky
what does that mean the 'last row'? if client 1 inserts then client 2, the last row is client 2. do you want to know what row client 1 inserted? Personally I think your question is too broad. What are you trying to accomplish? Ted --- Yasir Malik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I have a ta

Re: [SQL] Getting last insert value

2003-11-15 Thread Yasir Malik
Thank you all for your help. Yasir Malik On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Greg Stark wrote: > Date: 15 Nov 2003 12:50:28 -0500 > From: Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Guillaume LELARGE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Yasir Malik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subje

Re: [SQL] Getting last insert value

2003-11-15 Thread Greg Stark
Guillaume LELARGE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doing a "select currval() from my_table" after your insert should work. That's "select currval('my_table_pkcol_seq')" actually. The above would have called the currval() function for every record of the table which isn't what you want and in any

Re: [SQL] Getting last insert value

2003-11-15 Thread Guillaume LELARGE
Le Samedi 15 Novembre 2003 16:40, vous avez écrit : > Doing a "select currval() from my_table" after your insert should work. > Actually, this is select currval('my_sequence') Sorry about this. > For more details, see > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/functions-sequence.html -

Re: [SQL] Getting last insert value

2003-11-15 Thread Guillaume LELARGE
Le Samedi 15 Novembre 2003 15:18, vous avez écrit : > Hello, > I have a table with many fields, and one of the fields is of type serial. > I will do many inserts, and there will be many repeats of the other fields > in the table, but, obviously, the serial field will be unique for all the > rows.

[SQL] Getting last insert value

2003-11-15 Thread Yasir Malik
Hello, I have a table with many fields, and one of the fields is of type serial. I will do many inserts, and there will be many repeats of the other fields in the table, but, obviously, the serial field will be unique for all the rows. How can I get the value of serial field of the last row I inse