Re: Question re: serial

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Hi,

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Michael Satterwhite wrote:

> I have a table with a primary key defined as serial unique. When I insert a
> row into the table, I need to get the value of that row back so that I can
> use it to link rows in another table to it. How do I do that in Postgresql? I
> know that I can define a sequence and insert the value manually, but is there
> a way to query the value of the most recently inserted serial column of a
> row?

See currval() and nextval() functions:

Regards,
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