| From: | PFC <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Tom Allison" <tom(at)tacocat(dot)net>, "Vincenzo Romano" <vincenzo(dot)romano(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: INSERT ... RETURNING in v8.2 |
| Date: | 2007-06-16 16:04:08 |
| Message-ID: | op.tt0uw6ugcigqcu@apollo13 |
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> Holy Crud!
> you mean to tell me I can replace:
>
> insert into table(string) values(('one'),('two'),('three'));
> select idx from table where string in ('one','two','three');
Yes.
A smart ORM library should, when you create a new database object from
form values, use INSERT RETURNING to grab all the default values (SERIALs,
DEFAULTs, trigger-generated stuff etc). This is much more elegant than
digging to find the sequence name to currval() it !
I think this feature is priceless (but it would be even better if I could
do INSERT INTO archive (DELETE FROM active WHERE blah RETURNING *)
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