Hi Xiaoning, I need to say i don't have experience with RETURNING... So don't know what could be wrong... But the way how we usually deal with same issue is: Serial column has sequence next value as default value... So usually we first take next seq value and in insert we include pk column with taken value - then the same value use later in other tables as fk... Kind Regards, Misa Sent from my Windows Phone From: Xiaoning Xu Sent: 21 December 2011 22:31 To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [partition table] python fetchall or fetchone function can not get the returning rows Hello, I have a problem concerning the partition table. When I store a record into one of the partition and use "RETURNING table_id" or "RETURNING *", I expect the same result when calling fetchall or fetchone function as not using partition. However, it simply returns nothing. Since the serial primary key of my partition table is the FK of some other tables, I need to get the id after each insertion. My solution now is to select the max id from the parent table. I am wondering if there is any other alternatives to solve this problem. Thank you in advance! Xiaoning -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general