Re: The old Insert and retrieving your Serial problem in

From: John McCawley <nospam(at)hardgeus(dot)com>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The old Insert and retrieving your Serial problem in
Date: 2006-11-14 22:47:19
Message-ID: 455A4777.9030902@hardgeus.com
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That looks like the solution to my problem, thanks!...I tried running it
on my 8.0.8 server, but it wasn't found, I assume that's an 8.1 only
function?

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:54:42PM -0600, John McCawley wrote:
>
>
>>I am once again dealing with that age old problem of retrieving the
>>value of your inserted serial field in VB. I am fully aware that I can
>>manually pull the currval or nextval from my sequence, but I consider
>>having to manually deal with an auto-generated database object an
>>*extremely* inelegant solution.
>>
>>
>
>Maybe you're looking for lastval()?
>
>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-sequence.html
>
>Have a nice day,
>
>

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