On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 01:56:26AM +0200, PFC wrote:
> >Do you mean with lastval()?  Here's what happens:
> 
> Hm, interesting, you mean the return value of lastval() also depends 
> if  you set your constraints  to deferred or immediate ?

My mind's ablank trying to contrive a situation where that would
matter.  Can you provide an example?

In any case, I simply meant to point out that 8.1's lastval() will
be seductively convenient because you don't have to pass it a
sequence name, but the value it returns might not be the value you
want.

-- 
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

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