Re: [HACKERS] Last ID Problem

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>I have a suggestion...
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>For libpq:
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>Since OID's are now deprecated, and will eventually disappear,
>wouldn't it be a good idea, to have INSERT and UPDATE return
>a copy of the tuple that was inserted/updated?
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>This way, you could have a funtion to fetch an arbitrary named
>column from that tuple.
>Like: last_insert_value(tuple,'column_name')
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With a default to return the primary key?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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