Re: Returning oid or primary key

> However, _if_ RETURNING is going to be in the standard SQL for the
> next release, _and_ there are plans to update the jdbc driver to take
> advantage of that in the callable statement, as well, then it makes
> more sense _not_ to add my patch that implements the 'overloading' of
> the return value in the jdbc driver.
>
> I guess the issue is the ability to return the primary key from an
> inserted row, for cases that it's auto-generated, such as using the
> serial type.

Certainly the portable solution is to get RETURNING into the backend so
you can decide what you want to return.

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