From: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
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To: | Michael Stone <mstone+postgres(at)mathom(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: insert without oids |
Date: | 2006-01-13 21:29:15 |
Message-ID: | 1137187755.2509.6.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:10 -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> OIDs seem to be on their way out, and most of the time you can get a
> more helpful result by using a serial primary key anyway, but I wonder
> if there's any extension to INSERT to help identify what unique id a
> newly-inserted key will get? Using OIDs the insert would return the OID
> of the inserted row, which could be useful if you then want to refer to
> that row in a subsequent operation. You could get the same result by
> manually retrieving the next number in the sequence and using that value
> in the insert, but at the cost of additional DB operations.
There's really no additional operations required:
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (...);
INSERT INTO t2 VALUES (currval('t1_id_seq'), ...);
You need a separate SELECT if you want to use the generated sequence
value outside the database, although the INSERT ... RETURNING extension
will avoid that (there's a patch implementing this, although it is not
yet in CVS).
-Neil
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