From: | "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Nacef LABIDI" <nacef(dot)l(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Get the last inserted id |
Date: | 2008-04-11 17:41:41 |
Message-ID: | dcc563d10804111041r42de8f4ftc64ac13ec709d273@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Nacef LABIDI <nacef(dot)l(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if postgres can return the last ID inserted for a table
> which the primary key is autoincremented. I need to retrieve this ID in my
> code to continue processing on that inserted row.
smarlowe=# create table test (a serial primary key, b text);
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "test_a_seq" for
serial column "test.a"
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index
"test_pkey" for table "test"
CREATE TABLE
smarlowe=# insert into test (a,b) values (DEFAULT,'test') returning a;
a
---
1
(1 row)
INSERT 0 1
Note that there are other ways of doing it, but I really like the
returning clause.
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