SqlAlchemy: getting the id of the last record inserted

Question

I am using SQLAlchemy without the ORM, i.e. using hand crafted SQL statememts to directly interact with the backend db. I am using PG as my backend db (psycopg2 as DB driver) in

Answer 1

Make sure you use fetchrow/fetch to receive the returning object

insert_stmt = user.insert().values(name="homer", country_id="123").returning(user.c.id)

row_id = await conn.fetchrow(insert_stmt)