Re: Return key from query

From: Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt(at)abpni(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Return key from query
Date: 2010-11-03 16:46:08
Message-ID: 4CD191D0.4020905@abpni.co.uk
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>>
>> Sorry, I don't get it. I usually have an application that knows if it
>> wants to write some data to database, or not. So it writes the data, and
>> just gets from database the id that was set by database. No need of
>> getting the id earlier in a transaction, although the simple insert that
>> saves the data runs in a transaction of course.
>> Another approach could be just getting the id from database, and saving
>> the data using that id. If someone puts there any complicated logic
>> between getting id and saving data, it is just a very bad software
>> design, that has nothing common with the id/uuid problem.
>>

All my software is doing is running a simple INSERT query on a table,
with the primary key auto-incremented. I just have no way of knowing
what the new ID is once the query is done. My problem is simpler than
soft folk here think, however I feer that the solution is harder than I
think :(

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