Re: Serial key

Yes,

the easiest and best way to do this is to append select
curval('sequencename') to your inserts

ie insert into foo .....; select curval('sequence');

and then use the execute command

Dave
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 12:23, Bhushan Bhangale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a table in which the primary key is of type SERIAL. I insert a record
> and then I want the generated id because of this, so that I can use the id
> to insert records in child table.
>
> I know about a solution in which generate a id before hand and then use the
> id to insert in table and also in child tables.
>
> The other stuff which I read in JDK 1.4 is of getGeneratedKeys().
>
> The problem is I have to use JDK 1.3.1.
>
> Is there any solution for this problem?
>
> Thanks
> Bhushan
>
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