Re: How do I select the last Id in a column???

What could cause a table to act serialized when read committed transactions
are set in the configuration? That is something I am running into, which
provoked my [incorrect] example.

From: "Bruno Wolff III" <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:30 PM
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 14:00:33 -0700,
> Josh Goldberg <josh(at)4dmatrix(dot)com> wrote:
> > to get the last record inserted just
> > select * from row order by autoincId desc limit 1;
> >
> > if you have several clients doing this you might want to put your insert
and
> > the select inside a transaction.
>
> That won't help. Your suggestion will only work in serializable
transactions.
>
> In read committed mode the select might see a value for autoincId from
> a transaction that committed between the insert and the select.
>
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