Hi,
This is a SQL query for the advanced db gurus among you (I'm looking at Kent...)
Uh oh, you're in trouble if you think I'm an "advanced db guru" :-)
After I've run an insert statement, should I get the new primary key (it's autoincrementing) by using PySQLite's cursor.lastrowid in a select statement, or is there a more SQLish way to do this?
AFAIK there is no standard SQL way to do this, it is database-dependent. Python DB-API provides a portable interface using lastrowid; I would use that.
You don't have to do another select, lastrowid is an attribute of the cursor itself. It calls the SQLite function sqlite_last_insert_rowid().
In the SQL books I've got, they always seem to have an optional select statement on the end of inserts/updates, and I was thinking maybe I could do it that way also, but I can't figure out a logical way of putting
'select primary_key from foo where primary_key value > every other primary_key value'
Use cursor.lastrowid, that's what it is for.
Kent
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