Re: [INTERFACES] locking on database updates

On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 04:34:37PM -0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just read the last message I sent and apologise for the poor English.
> Let me put it a little clearer.
> 
> I agree that using a type 'serial' will give me what I want 
> regarding the key field for my table, and gets round the problem
> of concurrent users trying to create records with the same number.
> 
> The problem is that this does not actually give me the number that
> was just created.  As there is no guarantee that the other fields in
> the table are unique (hence the serial field in the first place) I cannot
> simply do a select to retrieve it.
> 
> Has anyone any ideas?

create table foo (bar serial, baz text);
insert into foo (baz) values ('wooble');
select currval('foo_bar_seq');

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary

you're welcome ;-)

Ross
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