Fwd: [PHP-DB] Assigning the current value of a sequence to a variable - Postgres 8.3.6

2009-05-18 Thread Carol Walter
From: Carol Walter Date: May 18, 2009 4:12:16 PM GMT-04:00 To: danaketh Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Assigning the current value of a sequence to a variable - Postgres 8.3.6 Hello, Oh, of course. Sorry for the silly question. Thanks for your help. Carol On May 18, 2009, at 3:45 PM

Re: [PHP-DB] Assigning the current value of a sequence to a variable - Postgres 8.3.6

2009-05-18 Thread danaketh
Hello, you're not fetching the query results. $query = "SELECT currval('\"tblPeople_peopleId_seq\"')"; $result = pg_query($query) or die("Can't execute 4th query"); if ($result != false) { $row = pg_fetch_row($result); echo "person id is " . $row[0] . ""; }

[PHP-DB] Assigning the current value of a sequence to a variable - Postgres 8.3.6

2009-05-18 Thread Carol Walter
Hello, I have a program that looks for a name in a database. If the name is found the id of the record is assigned to a variable. Later in the program that value is used to insert records associated with the name into the database using a variable called person_id. If the name is not f