Re: sequence aliases?

On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:15:45AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
> > My advice to the Rails people would be to fix whatever it is in their
> > code that is assuming a particular sequence name, or indeed assuming
> > a sequence at all...
>
> Well how else do you find the id of the last inserted record without assuming
> a sequence?

I suppose using something like:

select currval( pg_get_serial_sequence( 'table','col' ) );

That avoids hardcoding the sequence id. Not assuming a sequences at all
may be trickier.

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