Re: Last ID

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Catalin CIOCOIU wrote:

>     This method don't encourage using serial data type. Practically, in the
> joined table I can't use "serial" data type for primary key. I nead to
> use sequences by hand.
>     The last solution work fine, but I need a variable for store the
> nextval('<seq name>').
>
> There is not a other solution ?

It turns out I was wrong -- using currval is session-based, as Tom Lane
has pointed out.  However, still see the notes in the docs on caching
more than one values for each backend.  This may or not be pertinent.

-- Brett
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