Return-Path: postarch
Received: by postgres.Berkeley.EDU (5.61/1.29)
	id AA15162; Wed, 20 May 92 09:35:19 -0700
Message-Id: <9205201635.AA15162@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
From: postarch (Postgres Mailing Archive)
Subject: Re: Obtaining oid's
To: postgres@postgres.berkeley.edu
Sender: pg_adm@postgres.berkeley.edu
Reply-To: mao@postgres.berkeley.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 May 92 02:29:59 PDT."
             <9205200929.AA11156@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> 
Date: Wed, 20 May 92 09:35:07 PDT

you write:

> Is there a way to determine the oid which results from a 
> (single) "append" command?

not in the currently-released system.  version 4 (our pending release)
will return the oid to the caller for single-tuple appends.  until then,
the only thing you can do is

	retrieve (foo.oid) where <some qual that uniquely identifies the
				  new tuple>

					mike olson
					postgres research group
					uc berkeley
					mao@cs.berkeley.edu