Susan Cassidy <susan(dot)cassidy(at)decisionsciencescorp(dot)com> writes:
> It is a fairly large and complex Perl program, so no, not really.
> I do an insert via a function, which returns the new id, then later I try
> to SELECT on that id, and it doesn't find it.
> Could it be because the insert is done inside a function?
Is the SELECT also inside a database function, and if so is that function
marked stable or immutable? That might explain it --- non-volatile
functions are intentionally designed not to notice updates that happen
after they start.
regards, tom lane