Question

in CakePHP how would go about running this query? It’s to get the next sequence value in a postgres DB.

"SELECT nextval('book_id_seq')"

I’m used to using a syntax like $this->find('all') but that wouldn’t work afaik.

Answer 1

This kind of query you can do it with the query function

$model->query($query);

$query is "SELECT nextval('book_id_seq')";

some special queries have to be done like this… at most you may get last inserted id in mysql

hope this helps you 🙂