Re: Return the primary key of a newly inserted row?

John Tregea wrote:
> The example of
>
> select id1 = nextval(somesequence)
>
> could work for me. I have multiple users with our GUI and imagine I
> could use transaction protection to ensure no duplicates between
> selecting and incrementing the somesequence...

You won't have duplicates[1], it's a sequence. It's its purpose.

Now I may have missed something, I didn't follow this thread.

[1] Unless you manage to make it wrap around after 2^32 (or 2^64?) calls
of nextval. But that's quite unlikely.
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