Re: Last inserted id

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simeo Reig [mailto:simreig(at)terra(dot)es]
> Sent: 11 November 2001 22:54
> To: Dave Page
> Subject: Re: [ODBC] Last inserted id
>
>
> I had think that the problem was this but I believed that
> was possible to make a mistake because I'm newer with
> ADO. What must I do ? I see two possibilities:
>
> A) Make a select NEXTVAL from sequence, and
> insert this value in the id
>
> B) Insert row and after make a CURRVAL
>
> What option Do you use ?

Use option A), it's multi-user safe whereas the other method isn't.

>
> Another question please : Are you pleased with Postgres ?
> I have to make a project with almost 50 tables (five with
> arround 100.000 rows), and 20 concurrent users. Can postgres
> make a good job?

I'm project lead for pgAdmin II (pgadmin.postgresql.org) so I'm probably a
bit biased :-) but the main server I run at work hosts about 12 databases
for interactive (VB) applications, PHP apps and also logs data from 3 PBXs.
Most of the databases have at least 10 tables in them (a couple have about
40) and I have some tables over 1.7 million rows. In short, PostgreSQL does
a great job for me and I use it wherever I can (incidently, I also have
Informix, MS-SQL & Unidata servers here which I could have used instead of
PostgreSQL).

Regards, Dave.

> Thanks Dave
>
> Simeó Reig
> Barcelona (Spain)
>
> > ADO doesn't re-query the database to get the true
> >representation of
> > the
> new
> > row. The common way around this problem is to manually >get
> the new ID
> first
> > in a seperate query, and then insert that value as well. The >other
> > alternative is to refresh the recordset after the insert, >however
> > this
> often
> > isn't desirable.
> >
> > Regards, Dave.
>
>
>