Re: last inserted raw (identity)

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:43:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 22:27, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:25:05PM -0700, b b wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there an environment variable that returns the
> > > primary key of the last inserted row. This is usefull
> > > if you insert a rwo and need the primary key to insert
> > > it into another table as a foreign key.
> > >
> > > In MS-SQL that is equivalent to @@identity variable:
> > > insert into organization ('org name', ....)
> > > insert into contact (@@identity, 'contact name'
> > > .....)
> > > Here Identity is the organization's ID that is needed
> > > as a foreign key in contact table.
> >
> > See currval() and nextval().
>
> What if his PK isn't a sequence?

Hadn't thought of that. It would have been part of the insert then, in which
case it may be possible for the application to grab it internally.

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