Re: SQL-question: returning the id of an insert querry
Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
From: Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
To: scott_list@mischko.com
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-11-12T19:29:01Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Scott Chapman <scott_list@mischko.com> writes: > It would be nice if PostgreSQL could return the primary key it inserted > with but that may not be a fool-proof solution either. Is there a nice > way to handle this situation? Write a database function that inserts the record and returns the primary key value? That's probably the best way to insulate your app from the database structure... -Doug