Re: LAST_INSERT_ID equivalent

Greetings all!

I believe
   select currval('sequence_name');
should satisfy your needs. Within a transaction it will stay the same.

Regards!
Ed

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Erik Price wrote:

> I have a table with a SEQUENCE on it that increments the primary key (a
> BIGINT column) of the table whenever a new insert is performed.
>
> Is there a way to determine the last incremented value, so that if I do
> an insert, I can record the primary key of the record somewhere?  I'm
> interested in any technique for doing this, but especially a
> JDBC-specific solution.
>
> Sorry if the answer should be obvious but I am coming from MySQL and
> trying to learn the ANSI equivalent of the MySQL features.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Erik
>
>
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