Re: portable DBAPI auto-increment

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 08:36:25PM +0300, Marko Kreen wrote:

> > On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 04:40:29PM -0400, Mark Sienkiewicz wrote:
> >> In psycopg2, I find that lastrowid is always 0, even though it is
> >> making rows in the table with k=1, k=2, etc.
> >>
> >> I did some searching and found that the value of lastrowid is not
> >> taken from the autoincrementing column, but is some non-unique entity
> >> called an OID.
> >
> > OIDs *are* unique per table.
>
> Actually they are not - you need unique index on oid column for that.
>
> That is also one of the reasons to avoid them...

Thanks for the correction.

Karsten
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