Re: ADO and sequences

If you want autoincrement fields to be fully portable, then you will
have to do this client side.
You can do this by creating a table where youhold the next values, and
retrieve from them. This is similar to the way PosgtreSQL sequences
work internally.
Or, one other way it to have a record where yo identify the backend
type, and depending on the backend run specific code snippets.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-odbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-odbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Andreas
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:49 PM
> To: pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [ODBC] ADO and sequences
>
>
> Thanks, I did it that way but I'd like to have a workaround
> that doesn't tie my application to one single RDBMS.
> My initial plan was to create an adodb-connection to the
> current db backend on start of my application and the rest of
> the program wouldn't need to be aware what RDBMS actually
> manages the data in this session.
> This would be postgres in my LAN and JET directly accessing
> MDB-files on a notebook pc where I'd rather not always run a
> server in the background.
>
>
> Johann schrieb:
> > Easiest way I've found is to read NextVal on the relevant sequence,
> > and use the value you get for the key field.
> >
> > Since the field will be loaded, the "default" function that assigns
> > the number, kind of like an Access Autonumber - will *not* override
> > the value you manually insert.
> >
> > So:
> > Get nextval on sequence
> > .addnew
> > recordset!idfield = thenextvalyougot
> >
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