Re: [NOVICE] Last ID Problem

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: John Hansen <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>, Mitch Pirtle <mitch(dot)pirtle(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, operationsengineer1(at)yahoo(dot)com, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Last ID Problem
Date: 2005-02-01 16:56:52
Message-ID: 41FFB4D4.4060801@commandprompt.com
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>I have a suggestion...
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>For libpq:
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>Since OID's are now deprecated, and will eventually disappear,
>wouldn't it be a good idea, to have INSERT and UPDATE return
>a copy of the tuple that was inserted/updated?
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>This way, you could have a funtion to fetch an arbitrary named
>column from that tuple.
>Like: last_insert_value(tuple,'column_name')
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With a default to return the primary key?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>... John
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