> Obviously, someone did because they tried the code and it didn't work.
> At least the new code is closer to valid, though less clear. It is at
> least a valid snippet, which the previous version was not.
OK, I changed it to more pseudocode:
new_id = output of "SELECT nextval('person_id_seq')"
INSERT INTO person (id, name) VALUES (new_id, 'Blaise Pascal');
and
INSERT INTO person (name) VALUES ('Blaise Pascal');
new_id = output of "SELECT currval('person_id_seq')";
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