[Dbix-class] Use autoincremented value in other column

[David Schmidt]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Rob Kinyon <rob.kinyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:48, David Schmidt <davewood at gmx.at> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Is there any way (without transactions or 2 DB trips) to achieve the following:
>>
>> Insert a row and use the autoincremented primary key value in another column.
>>
>> table: pictures
>> id integer primary key,
>> filename varchar2(128)
>>
>> my $picture = $c->model('myDB::Pictures')->new_result({
>>                                           filename => <ID> . '_' . $filename
>>                                });
>
> If you weren't using DBIC, how would you solve this?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Rob Kinyon
>
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Hey Rob,

Well, I dont want to use a RDBMS specific solution using triggers.

What I'd like to do would be to instruct DBIC to concatenate the value
I supply for the column with the autoincremented integer upon insert.
For Oracle I'd probably write somehing like "INSERT INTO pictures
(filename) VALUES (SEQUENCE.NEXT . 'my_filename')" (untested and not
sure about the correct syntax here but I hope I made myself clear)

But I really want to do this on the DBIC side so i can switch DB later.

david