Re: FAQ error

Bruce Momjian wrote:

> $newSerialID = nextval('person_id_seq');
> INSERT INTO person (id, name) VALUES ($newSerialID, 'Blaise Pascal');
>
> Is this correct Perl? I don't see a nextval() function in Perl. Can
> you call SQL server-side functions natively from Perl?

Ofcourse not. This can be counted as 'pseudo-code'...

A correct implementation using DBI (and DBD::Pg) would be

$newSerialID = $dbh->selectrow_array (q{select
nextval('person_id_seq')});
$dbh->do (qq{INSERT INTO person (id, name) VALUES ($newSerialID, 'Blaise
Pascal')});

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