Re: Help with INSERT into 2 tables

You will need to:
1. Insert into aaaa
2. Get value of aaaaid for inserted record
3. Include aaaaid value explicitly in your insert to
bbbb.

The only question is how to do 2 above.  AFAIK doing a
separate command "SELECT
currval(aaaaid_sequence_name)" should work. 
Alternatively, if the oid of the last inserted record
is returned to your Java program (sorry, I don't know
anything about the JDBC driver functionality, so don't
know whether that is so or not), then you can do
"SELECT aaaaid FROM aaaa WHERE oid = <oid of inserted
record>": which would probably be safer.
--- Gintas <gntrs@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am new to SQL and don't know how to INSERT records
> to 2 tables.
> 
> The first table:
> 
>      CREATE TABLE aaaa ( aaaaid SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
>                          text VARCHAR(20)
>                        );
> 
> Second table:
> 
>      CREATE TABLE bbbb ( bbbbid SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
>                          aaaaid INTEGER REFERENCES
> aaaa (aaaaid) ON
> DELETE CASCADE,
>                          sometext VARCHAR(200)
>                        );
> 
> I want to insert related records to both table.  The
> problem is that
> in order to insert record to the second table it's
> necessary to know
> "aaaaid" field from the first table("text" is not
> UNIQUE):
> 
> INSERT INTO aaaa (text) VALUES ('Some info');
> INSERT INTO bbbb (aaaaid, sometext) VALUES (?????,
> 'Some text');
> 
> How is it possible to do that?
> (I am inserting this from JAVA).
> 
> Thanks for help.
> 
> 
> 
> Gintaras
> 
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