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<H1>Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL</H1>
<P>Last updated: Sat Oct 13 01:26:55 EDT 2001</P>
<P>Last updated: Sun Oct 14 19:27:20 EDT 2001</P>
<P>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<A href=
"mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</A>)<BR>
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example table in <A href="#4.16.1">4.16.1</A>, that might look like
this in Perl:</P>
<PRE>
$sql = "SELECT nextval('person_id_seq')";
$newSerialID = ($conn->selectrow_array($sql))[0];
INSERT INTO person (id, name) VALUES ($newSerialID, 'Blaise Pascal');
$res = $dbh->do($sql);
new_id = output of "SELECT nextval('person_id_seq')"
INSERT INTO person (id, name) VALUES (new_id, 'Blaise Pascal');
</PRE>
You would then also have the new value stored in
<CODE>$newSerialID</CODE> for use in other queries (e.g., as a
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<I>after</I> it was inserted by default, e.g.,</P>
<PRE>
INSERT INTO person (name) VALUES ('Blaise Pascal');
$res = $conn->do($sql);
$sql = "SELECT currval('person_id_seq')";
$newSerialID = ($conn->selectrow_array($sql))[0];
new_id = output of "SELECT currval('person_id_seq')";
</PRE>
Finally, you could use the <A href="#4.17"><SMALL>OID</SMALL></A>
returned from the <SMALL>INSERT</SMALL> statement to look up the