Re: Sequence

I am using the method Dave recommends successfully - do a select nextval('table_id_seq') and then use that value in
yourinsert. 

Tim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Cramer [mailto:Dave@micro-automation.net]
> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 8:42 PM
> To: Simon Mitchell
> Cc: Alan Roberto Romaniuc; pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [JDBC] Sequence
>
>
> Alan, Simon,
>
> You can't do this, at least not safely.
>
> Sequences can't be rolled back and are visible across transactions. In
> other words if thread 1 inserted a row, and before you read
> the sequence
> thread b inserted a row, you would get the same value for
> both threads.
> The only way I know is to get the sequence before hand and insert it.
> The overhead is the same.
>
> Dave
>
> On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 20:19, Simon Mitchell wrote:
> > Alan,
> >             Just doing some test from psql prompt.
> >
> > After your insert into the table the id sequence is available by
> >
> > select currval('table_id_seq');
> >  currval
> > ---------
> >     5006
> > (1 row)
> >
> >
> > If your session has not done an insert you should get an error.
> > select currval('table_id_seq');
> > ERROR:  table_id_seq.currval is not yet defined in this session
> >
> > Do a describe (\d) on your table to check seq name.
> >
> > So this is equivalent to MySql   >   last_insert_id() .
> >
> > ***************************************************
> > If you wont the last value of the sequence (which could be
> your current
> > session or another session) you can select it with
> >
> > SELECT last_value FROM  table_id_seq;
> >  last_value
> > ------------
> >        5006
> > (1 row)
> >
> > **This is not transaction safe as another session could
> have done an
> > insert. Please use select currval('table_id_seq');**
> > It is just nice to know.
> > ***************************************************
> >
> > Simon
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dave Cramer wrote:
> >
> > >Alan,
> > >
> > >You can't, get the sequence before and insert it.
> > >
> > >Dave
> > >On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 14:35, Alan Roberto Romaniuc wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>I have a table with sequence field (id).
> > >>
> > >>I insert a new row in this table, and I would like to get
> the sequence
> > >>number that postgresql assign to id.
> > >>
> > >>How can I get it???  ... Max function is not nice.......
> > >>
> > >>jdbc2 ....
> > >>
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