Bill Moran wrote:
Don't do that. Please let us know what site recommended that so I can
send an email to the author correcting them.
Hello Bill -
The 'offending' site and article is at
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/site-mysql-postgresql-2/3
Instead, do SELECT currval('<seqname>'), which is guaranteed to be isolated
from other sessions.
I've also gotten other advice to SELECT next_val ( whatever the exact
wording is) will reserve that serial number for you. Is that true?
So l
If you use the code above, sooner or later you're going to get bit.
Thanks!