On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:34:22PM -0500, Ernest Kim wrote: > I was wondering if there was a way to get the value of serial data > type after an insert. Use currval(): http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/functions-sequence.html Race condtions aren't a problem: "Notice that because this is returning a session-local value, it gives a predictable answer even if other sessions are executing nextval meanwhile." -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org