Re: [INTERFACES] JDBC and getting just assigned serial number

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Christoph Steinbeck wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm thrilled to see that there is some kind of discussion running in the
> C area on the exact equivalent of my very recent JDBC problem.
> I insert a row into a table where one field is a SERIAL. This SERIAL, of
> course, is automatically assigned by PostgreSQL. How do I get this
> number immeadiately after inserting the row? When I issue the command
> with psql I get back some kind of number which presumably is the OID.
> Getting just this one would be fine too because I need it for
> referencing.

There's not a standard way, but we do have an extension method that does
the job: getResultStatusString()

This method was added as someone else asked for it in the distant past.

ie:

Statement st = conn.createStatement();

.. your code that either runs st.executeQuery() or
st.executeUpdate() ..

then for JDK1.1.x:
String returncode = ((postgresql.jdbc1.Statement)st).getResultStatusString();

or for Java2:
String returncode = ((postgresql.jdbc2.Statement)st).getResultStatusString();

PS: Sorry, you have to state the driver version (jdbc1 or jdbc2), although
this will be fixed in 6.6, and will become postgresql.Statement.

Peter

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