Re: Sequence ID from INSERT

From: "Thomas De Vos" <devos_thomas(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "Dave Cramer" <Dave(at)micro-automation(dot)net>, "Daryl Beattie" <dbeattie(at)insystems(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Sequence ID from INSERT
Date: 2002-07-23 16:03:05
Message-ID: LAEOKCFKPAPLPGPOBHJPMEFCCGAA.devos_thomas@yahoo.co.uk
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you can create your table as follows:

CREATE SEQUENCE Food_Id_seq START 1;
CREATE TABLE Food (
Id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY ,
Name VARCHAR(10)
);
alter table Food ALTER ID SET DEFAULT NEXTVAL('Food_Id_seq');

when you do an insert, the ID will be set to nextVal Food_Id_Seq

insert into food (NAME) values ('apple');

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-jdbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-jdbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Dave Cramer
Sent: 23 July 2002 16:17
To: Daryl Beattie
Cc: 'pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org'
Subject: Re: [JDBC] Sequence ID from INSERT

Daryl,

your second example where you get the id first is the only way I know
how to do it

BTW it doesn't have to be done in a transaction. the id will not be used
by another connection.

DAve
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 11:05, Daryl Beattie wrote:
> Dear Postgresql-JDBCers,
>
> Let's say I have created a table like this:
>
> CREATE TABLE Food (
> Id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
> Name VARCHAR(10)
> );
>
> What is the best way to use JDBC to insert a row into the database
> and get the Sequence Id right out of it? I don't want to start a
transaction
> and have to do another query that looks like this:
>
> BEGIN;
> INSERT INTO Food (Name) VALUES ('Apple');
> SELECT currval('Food_Id_seq');
> COMMIT;
>
> Or ones like these:
>
> BEGIN;
> new_id = output of "SELECT nextval('Food_Id_seq')";
> INSERT INTO Food (Id, Name) VALUES (new_id, 'Apple');
> COMMIT;
>
> BEGIN;
> INSERT INTO Food (Name) VALUES ('Apple');
> SELECT MAX(Id) FROM Food; -- will check ResultSet of this separate query.
> COMMIT;
>
> I want to do it in one statement. Normally I would
> setAutoCommit(false), execute two separate statements, and then commit().
> However, I was wondering if there's a way to do all this in a ...
"cleaner"
> fashion? Can anybody provide me with a sample?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daryl.
>
>
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