Re: Get last serial (autoincrement) value

select currval('table_id_column_seq');

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru)" <andreil1(at)mail(dot)starlett(dot)lv>
To: <pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 03:34
Subject: [PHP] Get last serial (autoincrement) value

> Hi,
>
> Anyone knows how to obtain last inserted serial (autoincrement) id? I
> am currently using "SELECT id FROM table_name ORDER BY id DESC", and
> then retrieve first row and desired value.
>
> May be there is more elegant way? I am using ADODB. ADODB has function
> which in theory allows to obtain
> last inserted serial (autoincrement) id, but for Postgres it return OID.
>
> This is from ADODB manual:
>
> Insert_ID( )
> Returns the last autonumbering ID inserted. Returns false if function
> not supported.
> Only supported by databases that support auto-increment or object id's,
> such as PostgreSQL, MySQL and MSSQL currently. PostgreSQL returns the
> OID, which can change on a database reload.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
>
>
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