Question

Lets say I have a table temp123 as

Column      |      Type         |       Modifiers
------------+-------------------+------------------------
id          | integer           | not null default nextval('temp12_id_seq'::regclass)
description | character varying |

I would like to combine the ID returned by

INSERT INTO temp123 (description) 
      VALUES ('TESTING') RETURNING ID;

with a `SELECT’. For example (doesn’t work):

SELECT 23, x.* 
FROM (INSERT INTO temp123 (description) 
       VALUES ('TESTING') RETURNING id ) AS x;

PostgreSQL v9.0.2

Answer 1

The SELECT part is not needed in your example. The desired result would be obtained like this with any PG version that supports INSERT…RETURNING (>=8.2):

insert into temp123(description) values('TESTING') returning 23,*;