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Subject: Re: OID
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Apr 92 05:52:35 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 92 16:44:25 PDT

you write:

>  is there an easy way to get the "internal" object id from postgres of
> the last processed object (in my case: the latest object from an append
> commend) without retrieving it. I'm looking for in the programming
> environment

This is something that is often requested, and I'm supposed to be looking
into returning oids as part of the "CAPPEND" string passed back to the
program (I had forgotten).  Currently, the only way to do it is to retrieve
the oid of whatever you just appended (assumes you have some way of uniquely
identifying the tuple).


Jeff Meredith
mer@postgres.berkeley.edu