Re: [INTERFACES] ecpg and getting just assigned serial number

On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 04:25:17PM +0200, Theofilu Andreas wrote:
> I'm using 'ecpg' to develop my application, because it's mostly compatible
> to Informix's 'esqlc'. However. I have a table with a field of type
> 'serial'. Now I've no problem to insert any sentences into this table, but
> immediately after inserting a new sentence I need the newly assigned number
> to the serial field in the table. How can I access this number?
> With Informix I got this number in a field of structure 'sqlca'. With
> PostgreSQL the same field in this structure exists but contains always 0,
> as documented.

Where exactly does Informix return it? sqlca[?].

Also does anyone know whether the backend returns that number somewhere?

Michael
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