Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

Dave Cramer <dave@fastcrypt.com>

From: Dave Cramer <dave@fastcrypt.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-03-21T16:06:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom,

Forgive me for being dense, but how do you delineate this as being a
"language issue"?  

Dave
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 10:54, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Dave Cramer <dave@fastcrypt.com> writes:
> > > I am wondering if it would be possible to return the value of the first
> > > serial field in the row that was incremented on an insert ?
> > 
> > That's a language issue, not a protocol issue, and no I'm not taking it
> > on for 7.4.
> 
> What I was wondering is if we could create a currval() call that takes
> no arguments, and returns the most recent sequence id assigned.
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Dave Cramer <dave@fastcrypt.com>
Cramer Consulting