On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Andreas <maps.on@gmx.net> wrote:
> insert into staff ( company_fk, ..., department_fk )
> select company_fk, ..., department_fk
> from departments, companies, company_2_project AS c2p
> where company_id = c2p.company_fk
> and c2p.project_fk = 42
> and department_id in ( 40, 50 );
>
> step 2 would be to link those new blank staff records to project 42 by
> inserting a record into staff_2_project for every new staff_id.
>
> How can I find the new staff_ids while making sure I don't insert ids from
> other sessions?
> Is there an elegant way in SQL ?
Use returning?
insert into .....
yada
returning field1, field2, field3
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