On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 16:16, lorid wrote: > I could have sworn I kept a copy of prior emails that discussed how to > get back a value that was just inserted into a autonumber (or in > postgresql case a sequence number)
If you know the name of the sequence the number came from you can use currval(): insert into table1 (info) values ('abc'); select currval('table1seq'); Assuming table1seq is the name of the sequence here. In 8.0 there's a function to do this (I'm not sure of the name, but a quick search of the 8.0 docs should turn it up.) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly