[gameprogrammer] Re: Slightly offtopic: SQL Command

On Saturday 11 November 2006 01:56, Kevin Jenkins wrote:
> > PostgreSQL at least returns the oid of the inserted tuple.
> > This of course is unique. This can be used to get any
> > auto_increment etc stuff whit ease. So check the behaviour of the
> > DB you use. It can provide some similar way to get that.
> >
> > PS. How it seams that every time I encounter new DB system
> > PostgreSQL seams to do things right or better. :) Or maybe I'm a
> > litle bit biased to PostgreSQL. ;)
>
> I'm trying to implement this as described here:
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-insert.html
>
> but RETURNING doesn't work:
>
> BEGIN;
> CREATE TABLE blah(name integer);
> INSERT INTO blah(name) VALUES (0) RETURNING name;
> COMMIT;
>
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "RETURNING" at character 79
>
> Ideas?

Are you sure you use correct documentation?

Top of the link you posted says "PostgreSQL 8.2beta3 Documentation"

try:

prompt ~ $ psql
Welcome to psql 8.1.4, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
       \h for help with SQL commands
       \? for help with psql commands
       \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
       \q to quit

user=> \h insert
Command:     INSERT
Description: create new rows in a table
Syntax:
INSERT INTO table [ ( column [, ...] ) ]
    { DEFAULT VALUES | VALUES ( { expression | DEFAULT } [, ...] ) | 
query }

 

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