Re: Access - ODBC - serial problem...

Hello,

Thanks for your answers.

select currval('test_id_seq') works, I have tested it. But the problem is that what I have described is done
transparentlyby MS Access, when a line is added through a linked table, or through a subform. There is no opportunity
forme to call currval, except if I insert a line into the table programmatically, what I want to avoid. 

Is there maybe a way to incorporate a call to currval into the driver?

I have traced what SQL Server 2000 does, and there is call

SELECT @@IDENTITY

just after the insert. Does that mean that the problematic SQL call I have just talked about before

select id from test where code = 20

is a driver feature, more than a MS Access feature? If someone has an idea for a driver patch...

Philippe


Note: Concerning the remark of Richard Combs: "Your return for the query 'select id where code = 20' will return a
resultset, not a singleton response.": I agree, but nothing should prevent us from inserting a line into a table that
way...If code was unique, I agree, we would be saved... By the way, the inserts run fine each time I add a *new* code
value...


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De : Richard Combs [mailto:rncombs@covad.net]
Envoyé : jeudi, 8. avril 2004 17:21
À : Richard Huxton
Cc : Philippe Lang; pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
Objet : Re: [ODBC] Access - ODBC - serial problem...


The problem, as I see it, is that you are creating a table that will have multiple instances of the same value for code


    CREATE TABLE public.test
    (
      id serial PRIMARY KEY,
      code int4,
      f1 int4,
      f2 varchar(50),
      f3 text
    ) WITHOUT OIDS;

Your return for the query 'select id where code = 20' will return a result set, not a singleton response.  This will
nottell you what the latest value of id was, only all values.  If you normalize your table on code (i.e., make code a
uniquevalue) you will always get a singleton response to your query.  However, you will get an error that you will have
totrap, when you try to insert duplicate values into the table. 

My solution, and I work in Delphi, not Access, so I can't tell you how access will work with this, is to create a
functionin postgres that inserts your values and returns currval(''id'').  Currval is always the id you just inserted
intothe table.  You then call the function as a stored procedure (or whatever its equivalent is in Access), with the
properparameters, and you get the id you just inserted to work with. 

Check the docs for proper syntax on writing the function and using currval.

HTH

Richard Huxton wrote:


    On Thursday 08 April 2004 13:23, Philippe Lang wrote:


        With the table described below, imagine I do, from the client:

        insert into test (code) VALUES (20);

        How does the client know the id that has been given to the record? With
        ethereal, I could see Access fetches the id by doing a

        select id from test where code = 20"

        Of course, another record has the same code, and the wrong id is being
        fetched back. This explains what I have noticed, and that is explained
        below...



    Do you not have a primary key on your table?