Re: [GENERAL] performance issue using DBI

From: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "Joshua b(dot) Jore" <josh(at)greentechnologist(dot)org>
Cc: Nicolas Nolst <nnolst(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] performance issue using DBI
Date: 2002-06-06 16:14:05
Message-ID: 1023380046.26291.2977.camel@linda
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On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 14:55, Joshua b. Jore wrote:u
> Don't use currval since some other process might alter the
> sequence between the time you call nextval and currval.

This is wrong. currval() will always return the last serial assigned in
*the*same*session*. It is not affected by other users at all.

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