Re: Nextval

Ummm... no. Cross posting is a BAD thing. Post to one list and if you
don't get an answer there, then post to another list.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: "Zavier Sheran" <zsheran(at)yahoo(dot)com>; <pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Nextval

> Zavier,
>
> In the future, cross-post this sort of request to pgsql-novice. More of
> us DB Engine / Query Parser developers subscribe to that list than this
> one.
>
> > Fetch a SERIAL field (ie. record_id) and get the
> > highest value currently stored (ie. 1000), increment
> > the value by 1 and store a record that will have the
> > same value (1001) in record_id. So there must be a way
> > with concurrency control.
> >
> > I went through the manuals and found the solution with
> > NEXTVAL('serial'), but you have to create a sequence
> > for that, and I don't know if it is the right way to
> > do for what I want.
>
> Well, that depends on what you want to do, don't it? How about
> describing what you're trying to accomplish rather than making us guess?
> :-)
>
> -Josh