Re: getting back autonumber ... Another MsSQL Comparation Question

Hi Listers,       I need to know the number of affected (Inserted, deleted, updated)
rows by a Query. In MsSQL I use SELECT @@ROWCOUNT, similar to SELECT
@@IDENTITY. Is there any @@RowCount similar statement in PostGres??

Alessandro - Liga One Sistemas
alessandro@ligaone.com.br


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: "mail TechEvolution" <mail@techevolution.be>
Cc: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] getting back autonumber just inserted


> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:50:16PM +0200, mail TechEvolution wrote:
> > hello
> >
> > i ame a newbie to PostGreSQL, I ame using PostGreSQL 8.0
> > (windowsinstaller) on a xp prof platform
> >
> > i would like to get back the autonumber from the last record inserted,
> > for other SQL db (m$ sql db ...) i could use:
> > SELECT @@ IDENTITY
> >
> > can someone help me by informing me what the SQL syntax is to be used
> > with PostGreSQL db and get the same result, the last autonumber
inserted?
>
> You use the currval() function, using the name of the involved sequence
> as parameter.  There is a pg_get_serial_sequence() function, to which
> you give the table name and column name, and it will give you the
> sequence name.
>
> -- 
> Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>)
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