Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

Sounds good.

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > What I was wondering is if we could create a currval() call that takes
> > no arguments, and returns the most recent sequence id assigned.
>
> Why? That's still an extra query that the client has to issue, and
> currval in that form would be an amazingly fragile programming tool.
> (What if some trigger causes an autoincrement on some other sequence
> than the one you are thinking about?)
>
> I liked the INSERT ... RETURNING and UPDATE ... RETURNING syntax
> extensions that Philip Warner (IIRC) proposed awhile back. Those would
> get the job done much more flexibly than anything else that's been
> suggested. That's why I think it's a language problem and not a
> protocol problem.
>
> regards, tom lane
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