Re: Updatable view and default sequence values

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> I think you could get away with doing a CASE or COALESCE statement, ie:
>
> INSERT INTO subscription_purchase ... SELECT
> COALESCE(currval('purchase_purchase_sid_seq'), NEW.purchase_sid)
>
> BTW, it would be interesting to share whatever you finally come up with;
> it's an interesting problem.

Yeah, as I already wrote in my first mail, that's the workaround I'm
currently using - COALESCE everywhere. However, it bothers me that I'm
repeating the same expression multiple times.

I was thinking also of writing some stored procedure in order to
determine whether NEXTVAL was already called and in case it was - to
call CURRVAL instead. Something like that:

CREATE FUNCTION nextcurrval(x_sequence regclass)
RETURNS int8 AS
$BODY$
BEGIN

RETURN CURRVAL(x_sequence);

EXCEPTION
WHEN others THEN
RETURN NEXTVAL(x_sequence);
END;
$BODY$
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;

The thing is that it works only per session and not per SQL statement,
i.e. RULE. So, in case I have two or more inserts in one session it will
not work correctly - it will always return CURRVAL.

BTW, I didn't manage to find out what's the exception error code for the
"CURRVAL sequence not yet defined" error - that's why I used 'others'.

Anyway, I'll write here when I find other interesting solutions.

Regards,
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Kouber Saparev
http://kouber.saparev.com