Re: concurrency problem

On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 09:23:17AM +0530, sathish kumar shanmugavelu wrote:
> I fetch the consultatioin_no and add one to it, i should know this
> consultation_no to save the other 10 tables. because i use this number as

Don't do that. Fetch the number from a sequence first: select
nextval(). Then you can insert it as currval() for all your other
INSERTs. No, there is no race condition or concurrency problem: see
the docs on these functions. No locks.

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