Lindell Alderman wrote:

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I have Zope all set, and I can run all your standard SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE stuff. But I have one hitch, I can't seem to figure out how to make it so an end user could add a name and email address without knowing about the PKEY number. This is no problem for a DBA but I want to make it easy for anyone to INSERT and UPDATE records. Did I make a bad design choice in use unique numbers to glue all the tables together. Is this an interface problem. Am I missing something. I need some help. Can someone point me in the right direction please?

Richard You can either use postgresql's serial type or create a sequence and then use select nextval('sequence_name') and select currval('sequence_name') to get and set the value of the key field.

Check out the user's guide on www.postgresql for exact information on this.

-L

I have the SERIAL type set up already. What is holding me up it that I need to make it possible to INSERT and UPDATE records base on the persons name and not the id number. somthing along the lines of this. INSERT INTO address (per_id,street,city,state,zip) VALUES ('SELECT per_id FROM person WHERE first = '<dtml-var first>' AND last = '<dtml-var last>'','<dtml-var street>','<dtml-var city> ...etc; I can't seem to figure out the SQL statment to use. I need to use a SELECT as a VALUE in an INSERT statment some how. can that be done, or should I use a View with an UPDATE and INSERT rule ? Richard