On Tue, March 6, 2007 14:58, Bart Samwel wrote: > Jim Stewart wrote: >> 1) Is it possible to obtain the ID of a row inserted via a prepared >> statement? > > Try using the syntax "returning", i.e.:
> This syntax is supported by PostgreSQL 8.2 and up, it was added in one > of the more recent SQL standards. The trick also works for UPDATE > statements AFAIK, and you can even do DELETE...RETURNING to return ids > of the records you deleted. Bart, you're right. Before I sent out my own reply I did a quick check for this syntax on a local database, and it wasn't supported. But I missed the fact that my local database was still running on 8.1. Yes, RETURNING is definitely the way to go. Jeroen _______________________________________________ Libpqxx-general mailing list Libpqxx-general@gborg.postgresql.org http://gborg.postgresql.org/mailman/listinfo/libpqxx-general
