>> Don't most of the drivers have some way of retrieving this data? In
>> mysql you have the last_insert_id function, in Oracle you have the
>> curr_value of the sequence on the particular connection (I *think*
>> this is threadsafe. We did an experiment where several of us were
>> inserting via SQLPlus and inserts outside our own connections were not
>> affecting our own curr_value).
>
> I am too spoiled by using WebObjects/EOF, and now Cayenne :-). I rarely
> had to use driver-specific tricks. But if at least some drivers have
> their own mechanism for reading back generated values, I am all for
> adding this feature to Cayenne.
I just can't help but adding my 0.01 EUR here again ... What's the use
of that feature (apart from feature-completeness)?
This will only complicate things on the adaptor layer of cayenne. If it
were to save round-trips to the database I'd be happy but this isn't the
case here. So what's the use?
Maybe I'm too puristic here? :-)
-dirk
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