Re: type SERIAL in C host-struct

On 2019-11-07 20:14:47 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> At the end of the day we came up with the following solution:
>
>         strcpy(host_struct.name, "Sigrid");
>         EXEC SQL select nextval('lina_lid_seq') into :host_struct.ser;
>
>         EXEC SQL INSERT INTO lina VALUES ( :host_struct );
>
> which seems to work fine. Any comments about side effects?

You are performing two queries instead of one, so you have to wait for
one extra round trip. Not a problem if client and server are on the same
network or you insert a few host_structs per second. May be a problem if
client and server are in different datacenters and you want to do
hundreds of inserts per second.

        hp

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