"Raymond O'Donnell" <rod@xxxxxx> writes: > On 28/08/2008 22:26, Bill wrote: >> someone confirm that currval() returns the the value for the connection >> from which it is called? > Yes, see here: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-sequence.html > and specifically a little further down the page on "currval": A general comment on those pages is that the tabular lists of functions are intended to give one-liner descriptions of what the functions do. For cases where a one-liner isn't sufficient, there's a sentence or a paragraph following the table. I don't find this layout remarkably intuitive myself, but I wonder whether anyone has a concrete plan for making it better? regards, tom lane