Re: FAQ error

> Obviously, someone did because they tried the code and it didn't work. 
> At least the new code is closer to valid, though less clear.  It is at
> least a valid snippet, which the previous version was not.

OK, I changed it to more pseudocode:
   new_id = output of "SELECT nextval('person_id_seq')"   INSERT INTO person (id, name) VALUES (new_id, 'Blaise
Pascal');

and
   INSERT INTO person (name) VALUES ('Blaise Pascal');    new_id = output of "SELECT currval('person_id_seq')";


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