Re: SERIAL behaviour

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 03:47:28PM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 03:59, Eugene wrote:
> [ SERIAL type / SEQUENCEs and transactions ]
>
> Closely related: what's the official/preferred way if I'm inserting rows
> into a table with a auto assigned id (SERIAL), to get the newly created
> id? asking the sequence obviously will not work - as the sequence will
> advance when the next value is inserted from another transaction.

You read the documentation and notice that currval() is not affected by
nextval()s executed upon other connections. In other words, it's a complete
non-issue and works exectly the way that is useful.
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> arithmetic and those that can't.