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>I have a suggestion...
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>For libpq:
>
>Since OID's are now deprecated, and will eventually disappear,
>wouldn't it be a good idea, to have INSERT and UPDATE return 
>a copy of the tuple that was inserted/updated?
>
>This way, you could have a funtion to fetch an arbitrary named 
>column from that tuple.
>Like: last_insert_value(tuple,'column_name')
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>

With a default to return the primary key?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



>... John
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