> mitch and all, i noticed that if i keep refreshing
> my
> page that the $insert_id keeps growing... 66 then
> 67
> then 68 then 69.
>
> i guess this makes sense, after all, the "next
> value"
> is always and icnrement higher. this makes me a
> little nervous, though.
>
> i only want one value... the next id i should use
> to
> perform an insert.
>
> i'm hoping currval() does the trick, however, i'm
> getting no result.
>
> do i need to instruct the sequence to go to it last
> value before calling currval()?
>
> tia...

another point of interest. now that i've been
refreshing my nextval() statement, my highest cust_id
value is 65, but nextval() keeps incrementing from
where it was before. reading through the manual, this
is designed in behavior.

it looks like i could reset the value using setval().

i also noticed that currval() returns the value of the
last nextval(). this infers that i must call
nextval() prior to being able to get currval(), yet
nextval() was not included in the original suggestion.

am i missing something here?

tia...

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