Re: SERIAL Field

On 6 May 2002 at 12:43, Joel Burton wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Langille [mailto:dan@langille.org]
> > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:41 PM
> > To: Joel Burton
> > Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> > Subject: Re: [ADMIN] SERIAL Field
> >
> > > In any event, inserting then using currval() is the standard practice
> > > around here, and it works great. Nothing fishy at all here,
> > nothing to see,
> > > move on.
> >
> > Why is that "less risk"?
>
> It's not; nextval() is just fine. I was half asleep and thinking, I think,
> of another database when I wrote that.
>
> "You say nextval() + write, I say write + currval()..."

So long as a given application does not mix the two approaches, everything
should be fine.
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Dan Langille
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