-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 D. Dante Lorenso wrote: > Michael Glaesemann wrote: >> >> On Aug 20, 2007, at 16:58 , Ed L. wrote: >> You'd have to specify your table WITH OIDS anyway as they're no >> longer used by default for table rows, so there's really nothing to be >> gained by using oids. > Using a brain-dead sample table that looks like this: > > CREATE table some_table ( > col0 SERIAL, > col1 VARCHAR, > col2 VARCHAR > ); > > I want to do something like this: > > INSERT INTO some_table (col1, col2) > VALUES ('val1', 'val2'); > > I want the value of col0 returned to the application and I don't want to > know the name of the sequence involved in the SERIAL column. I just > want the value inserted into the column by using just it's column name. lastval() Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ UNIQUE NOT NULL Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGyhwOATb/zqfZUUQRArlgAJ9F0exnHPJmM5r8eSASb1qGIl7DtQCfbZZh UhYLXWZxr2zKiJYBiJnc4rM= =z7N/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings