SELECT @@IDENTITY

Okay, I did a quick search through both the general and SQL lists(1,2)
trying to determine if there is a PostgreSQL construct equivalent to
Microsoft SQL Server's "SELECT @@IDENTITY". After performing an insert the
database caches the last sequence number for each connection and the select
retrieves that value. Thus if connection A and connection B each inserted
into the same table they would each know what the value of the sequence was
immediately after their insert.

Is there any direct support for this? I know that I can manually code to
select the nextval of a sequence but the syntactic sugar of SELECT
@@IDENTITY is really nice.

Many thanks!

rjsjr

1 - The only valid query I could find was
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2001-09/msg00523.php which is
unanswered.
2 - The search engine for the archives seems to ignore the "@@" in the
search string so I ended up with a LOT of information on corporate identity
and identity columns.