The way that you do this *correctly* in oracle is to make use of its "returning" clause, and the DBI's bind_param_in_out() method. This is the only way to properly avoid concurrency issues, and it also works cleanly and is fast.
In code, it looks something like this:
my $sql = "insert into foo (name,value) values (?,?) returning id into
+ ?";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->bind_param(0, $name);
$sth->bind_param(1, $value);
$sth->bind_param_inout(2, \$id, 1024); # this is a reference that gets
+ written to!
$sth->execute;
print $id; # or whatever... $id has been written into by the execute
Assuming that the id column is driven by a sequence and a trigger.
Granted, doing individual calls to bind_param / bind_param_inout is kind of painful and ugly, so when I do this I actually written a wrapper around calling all the binding, but this is the crux of what it does / how it works.
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