On 12/21/11 10:24 AM, Xiaoning Xu wrote:
> Since the serial primary key of my partition table is the FK of some other tables, I need to get the
> id after each insertion.
> My solution now is to select the max id from the parent table.
> I am wondering if there is any other alternatives to solve this problem.
curval('sequencename') after doing the insert will return the correct
value for this transaction, independent of any other concurrent
trnasactions that may be going on. your max() method would fail with
enough concurrency.
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