Re: MySQL LAST_INSERT_ID() to Postgres

On Aug 28, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Masis, Alexander (US SSA)
> <alexander.masis@baesystems.com> wrote:
>> I was mapping C++ application code that works with mySQL to work with
>> Postgres.
>> There were a number of articles on line regarding the conversion from
>> mySQL to Postgres like:
> SNIP
>> Well, in MySQL it's easy you just do:
>> "SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID();"
>>       In Postgres, however it is not that simple. You have to know
>> the
>> name of so called "insert sequence". Postgres has a system function
>> for
>> that( SQL line below ).
>> In Postgres you will have to provide the table and column name(
>> "auto_increment" type in MySQL or "serial or bigserial" in Postgres).
>>
>> Here is that SQL query that returns the last inserted ID:
>>
>>  "SELECT CURRVAL(
>> pg_get_serial_sequence('my_tbl_name','id_col_name'));"
>
> That's the hard way.  Starting with pgsql 8.2 you can do it much
> more easily:
>
> create table tester (id serial primary key, info text);
> insert into tester (info) values ('this is a text string') returning
> id;
>
> tada!  All done, that insert will return the id for you.

Or lastval() if you want something bug-compatible with MySQL.

Cheers,
   Steve