Re: Fwd: Strange behaviour of RULE (selecting last inserted ID of 'sequenced' column)

More of a gotcha than a bug... basically, your select rule is hitting
the sequence again. I think there's a section in the rules chapter
that talks about this. GeneralBits might also have info.

Probably a better question is, what are you trying to do?

On Aug 4, 2006, at 4:50 AM, Nikolay Samokhvalov wrote:

> I still think that this is quite strange behaviour. When I write
> '...SELECT NEW.id...' I don't expect that another calling of column's
> default expr will take place. I just want to have access to "id"
> column of just-created row.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov@gmail.com>
> Date: Jul 13, 2006 6:15 PM
> Subject: Strange behaviour of RULE (selecting last inserted ID of
> 'sequenced' column)
> To: PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
>
>
> Is this a bug?
>
> test=> create sequence strange_seq;
> CREATE SEQUENCE
> test=> create table strange(id integer not null default
> nextval('strange_seq') primary key, data text);
> NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index
> "strange_pkey" for table "strange"
> CREATE TABLE
> test=> create rule strange_rule as on insert to strange do select
> new.id as id;
> CREATE RULE
> test=> insert into strange(data) values('adas');
> id
> ----
>  2
> (1 row)
>
> test=> select * from strange;
> id | data
> ----+------
>  1 | adas
> (1 row)
>
> test=> insert into strange(data) values('adas');
> id
> ----
>  4
> (1 row)
>
> test=> insert into strange(data) values('adas');
> id
> ----
>  6
> (1 row)
>
> test=> select * from strange;
> id | data
> ----+------
>  1 | adas
>  3 | adas
>  5 | adas
> (3 rows)
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Nikolay
>
>
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> Best regards,
> Nikolay
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