Re: [Re: PRIMARY KEY]

Of course - my bad... That's the main reason I upgraded to 8.2!

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 09:03 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 23:20:12 +1100,
> Phillip Smith <fukawi2(at)iinet(dot)net(dot)au> wrote:
> > If you actually need to know the value of N_GEN in your ASP application,
> > you will need to query the database first and select the NEXTVAL from
> > the sequence that the "serial" data type will create, then use that
> > returned value in your insert - ie, DON'T exclude it from the insert,
> > otherwise it will default to NEXTVAL again and return a different value.
>
> In 8.2, you can also use the RETURNING clause to get those values.

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