Re: Fw: postgresql experts please help

From: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
To: Mark Lewis <mark(dot)lewis(at)mir3(dot)com>
Cc: Andrei Ilitchev <andrei(dot)ilitchev(at)oracle(dot)com>, pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org, Marina Vatkina <Marina(dot)Vatkina(at)Sun(dot)COM>
Subject: Re: Fw: postgresql experts please help
Date: 2007-10-18 17:41:43
Message-ID: Pine.BSO.4.64.0710181340270.25640@leary.csoft.net
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Mark Lewis wrote:

> You haven't disabled JDBC autocommit for this connection. That means
> that each statement gets executed in a separate transaction.
>
> Since currval is only valid within the scope of a single transaction,
> and you're executing your "select currval" from a separate transaction,
> that's why you can't see it.
>

False. currval maintains state across transactions:

jurka=# create sequence myseq;
CREATE SEQUENCE
jurka=# begin;
BEGIN
jurka=# select nextval('myseq');
nextval
---------
1
(1 row)

jurka=# commit;
COMMIT
jurka=# select currval('myseq');
currval
---------
1
(1 row)

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