Re: Returning generated id after a transaction.

Thank you so much for these examples, I tryed the 4th one for it's easiness
and it works perfectly ! I'm probably going to replace it with your no.2
example as soon as I have time as I do agree with you about data and
application logic.

Thanks again,
Guillaume

Le 21 avril 2012 10:26, Bartosz Dmytrak <bdmytrak(at)gmail(dot)com> a écrit :

> Hi,
> there is option no. 4 (kind of extended WITH)
>
> WITH
> inserted_row AS (
> INSERT INTO "tblParent" ("RowValue")
> VALUES ('2012-01-01'::date)
> RETURNING *
> ),
> updated_row AS (UPDATE "tblChild"
> SET "ParentRowId" = (SELECT "RowId" FROM inserted_row)
> WHERE "RowId" = 123 --whatever You need
> )
>
> SELECT "RowId" FROM inserted_row;
>
> I missed it in previous post.
> This could be part of function (SELECT statement should be modified) or
> ad-hoc query.
>
> Regards,
> Bartek
>
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